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

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

Paul, Jean

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

18.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

30.

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

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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 think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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