Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

10.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Day, Doris

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

20.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Meyers, Ernest

30.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Brown, Les

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

35.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

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

Tholuck

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Bible

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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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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

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

45.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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