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

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

Christie, Agatha

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

10.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

11.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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

16.

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

Fonda, Jane

17.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

18.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

21.

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.

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

24.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

25.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

28.

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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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

30.

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

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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

34.

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

35.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

36.

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

Lehrer, Tom

37.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

38.

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

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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

41.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

43.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

45.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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