Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Nuveen, John

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Powell, Anthony

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Tholuck

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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