Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Proverb, Irish

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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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

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Brown, Captain J.

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Young, Edward

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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