Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

- Byron, Lord

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

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Astaire, Fred

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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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Byron, Lord

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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

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

Jung, Carl

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von