Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

- Kangas, Steve

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Meir, Golda

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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

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

Rahel