Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Christie, Agatha

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

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

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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Mittleman, Stu

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

33.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Rahel

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.