Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

11.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

15.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mortimer, John

31.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Billings, Josh

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?