Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Richards, Keith

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

10.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

11.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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 associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Brown, Les

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Christie, Agatha

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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