Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

- Desmoulins, Camille

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Turner, Tina

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

11.

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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

14.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

17.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

20.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Burke, Billie

24.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

25.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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

Child, Lydia M.

31.

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

Mortimer, John

32.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Burns, George

34.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

35.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Updike, John

37.

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

38.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

39.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Billings, Josh

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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

45.

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

Ali, Muhammad

46.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

48.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

49.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Durrell, Lawrence