Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Hope, Bob

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

Meyers, Ernest

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.