Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kronenberger, Louis

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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.

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Burns, George

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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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 the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age is a shipwreck.