Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Updike, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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.

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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

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

Richards, Keith

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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

34.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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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

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth