Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Age and aging

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Mittleman, Stu

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

10.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

13.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

14.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

15.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

16.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

19.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

20.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

24.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

25.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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

27.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

28.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

29.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

30.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

31.

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

Hawn, Goldie

32.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

38.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

40.

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

Meir, Golda

41.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

43.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Limbaugh, Rush

48.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

50.

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