Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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)

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

Einstein, Albert

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

15.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Burns, George

17.

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

Updike, John

18.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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

21.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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

28.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

30.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

31.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

32.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

34.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

35.

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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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

40.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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

47.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

48.

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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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