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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

To grow old is to grow common. 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

10.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Greier, John

15.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

18.

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

Wharton, Edith

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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

21.

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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

24.

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

Updike, John

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

27.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

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

Burns, George

30.

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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

39.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

40.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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 old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John