Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

- Astaire, Fred

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

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

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

Richards, Keith

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Christie, Agatha

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Byron, Lord

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Nuveen, John

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cope, Wendy

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck