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 carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Cass, Eli

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Cato The Elder

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

17.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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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

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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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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Greier, John

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

Bible

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wharton, Edith

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin