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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
Age and aging Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.
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

2.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

3.
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
Fonda, Jane

4.
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Burroughs, John

5.
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Seneca

6.
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.
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

8.
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

9.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Wordsworth, William

10.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.
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

12.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Dressler, Marie

13.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
Proverb

14.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Maurois, Andre

15.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Edwards, Tryon

16.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Hoagland, Edward

17.
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.

18.
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

19.
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

20.
To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
Buruch, Andre B.

21.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Stengel, Casey

22.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

23.
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.

24.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Chopra, Deepak

25.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Jung, Carl

26.
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.

27.
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
Browning, Robert

28.
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

29.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Steele, Sir Richard

30.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Romulo, Carlos Pena

31.
Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
Moody, Dwight L.

32.
One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

33.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Durrell, Lawrence

34.
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
Faulkner, William

35.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
Pepper, Claude D.

36.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
Kronenberger, Louis

37.
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

38.
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Gabriel, Peter

39.
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

40.
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.
Tusser, Thomas

41.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Eliot, George

43.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Defoe, Daniel

44.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Astor, Lady Nancy

46.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Maugham, W. Somerset

48.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Nuveen, John

49.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]
Bible

50.
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


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