Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

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.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Irish

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

11.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Meyers, Ernest

13.

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.

14.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

19.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

20.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Pepper, Claude D.

22.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

29.

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

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

33.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Kanin, Garson

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

45.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

47.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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