Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about 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

To grow old is to grow common. 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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Nuveen, John

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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 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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry