Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Defoe, Daniel

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

14.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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.

33.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

43.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Young, Edward

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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