Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Tholuck

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Burns, George

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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

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kanin, Garson

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Burns, George

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie