Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Young, Edward

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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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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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Paul, Jean

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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?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Bible

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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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.

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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.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane