Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

11.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

14.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

15.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

17.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

18.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

20.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

24.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

25.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

28.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

29.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

30.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

31.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

32.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

37.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

39.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

40.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

41.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

43.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

44.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

45.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

50.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda