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

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Greier, John

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.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

10.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

11.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Lehrer, Tom

13.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

14.

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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

16.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

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

Rahel

20.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

21.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

24.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

25.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

27.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

28.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

29.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

33.

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

34.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

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

Young, Edward

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

42.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

43.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

44.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

45.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

46.

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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Old age is a shipwreck.