Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Kanin, Garson

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Buck, Pearl S.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

12.

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

Astaire, Fred

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

16.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burke, Billie

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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