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 wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tholuck

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

11.

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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Burroughs, John

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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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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

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

18.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

27.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

29.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

30.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

42.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

46.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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