Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

- Buruch, Andre B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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

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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.

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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

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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

14.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Young, Edward

24.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Dressler, Marie

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

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

Becker, May L.

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

Bible

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

42.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

43.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

47.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.