Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Meir, Golda

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

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, 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

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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

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

Rahel

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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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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.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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

Lerner, Max

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Kanin, Garson