Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Paul, Jean

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Greier, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Hoagland, Edward

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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