Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Byron, Lord

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

10.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Young, Edward

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steele, Sir Richard