Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Fonda, Jane

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

10.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

17.

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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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

31.

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

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb

40.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

48.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.