Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

13.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

14.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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

16.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

17.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Palmer, R.

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Gabriel, Peter

24.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

28.

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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

30.

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

Palmer, Arnold

31.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

32.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

33.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

38.

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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Shakespeare, William

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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

Proverb

44.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

48.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

49.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

50.

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