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

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

10.

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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Hope, Bob

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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.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Proverb

46.

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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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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