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Age and aging

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.
Age and aging Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Brown, Rita Mae

2.
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Viorst, Judith

3.
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

4.
If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

5.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Harrison, Jane

6.
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Lehrer, Tom

7.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Carter, Lillian

8.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

9.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Landor, Walter Savage

10.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Swift, Jonathan

11.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
Shakespeare, William

12.
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

13.
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

14.
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
O'Casey, Sean

15.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
Cicero, Marcus T.

16.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Cicero, Marcus T.

17.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]
Bible

18.
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

19.
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

20.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

21.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
Yeats, William Butler

22.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Inge, Dean William R.

23.
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Limbaugh, Rush

24.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Perry, Ralph B.

25.
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
Selznick, Irene Mayer

26.
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.

27.
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.

28.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Haydon, Benjamin

29.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Pope, Alexander

30.
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.

31.
When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

32.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Cicero, Marcus T.

33.
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.

34.
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Osler, Sir William

35.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Steele, Sir Richard

36.
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

37.
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Johnson

38.
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.
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

40.
I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Desmoulins, Camille

41.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.
Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

43.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Kollwitz, KaThe

44.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Kuhn, Maggie

45.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Nuveen, John

46.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Colton, Charles Caleb

48.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
Proverb, German

49.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Proverb

50.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Steele, Sir Richard


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