Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

11.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

14.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

18.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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

20.

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

Meir, Golda

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

Christie, Agatha

24.

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

Yeats, William Butler

25.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

26.

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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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)

28.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

Paul, Jean

35.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Rahel

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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

45.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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