Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Updike, John

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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Billings, Josh

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Bible

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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 surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Burroughs, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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.

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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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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

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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