Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Brown, Rita Mae

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

10.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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

Nuveen, John

12.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

14.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

33.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

34.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

35.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

40.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

41.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Desmoulins, Camille

45.

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

Browning, Robert

46.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

47.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

48.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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