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

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

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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