Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Steele, Sir Richard

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Jung, Carl

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

13.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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

19.

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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

21.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

29.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

36.

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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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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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

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

40.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.