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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Burroughs, John

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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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

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

Richards, Keith

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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.

45.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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