Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Burke, Billie

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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