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 old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

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

Byron, Lord

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

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

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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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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

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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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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hope, Bob

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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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

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Burke, Billie

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

Burke, Billie

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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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Becker, May L.

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.