Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Young, Edward

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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If youth knew; if age could.