Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Carter, Lillian

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

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

Stael, Germaine De

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

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

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Richards, Keith

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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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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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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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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