Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Kennedy, Rose 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

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Proverb, Irish

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hope, Bob

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Updike, John

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Kanin, Garson

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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