Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

- Arnold, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Swift, Jonathan

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Day, Doris

10.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Powell, Anthony

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

18.

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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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

29.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

34.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hope, Bob

38.

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

39.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.