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

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

12.

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

Christie, Agatha

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

41.

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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Burke, Billie

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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 woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

48.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert