Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hawn, Goldie

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William