Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Desmoulins, Camille

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

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

Becker, May L.

11.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Proverb

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Greier, John

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

Wharton, Edith

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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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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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Burke, Billie

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

40.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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