Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Yeats, William Butler

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kronenberger, Louis

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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)

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

14.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

15.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

18.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

20.

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

Lehrer, Tom

21.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

25.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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

27.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

29.

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.

30.

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

Ali, Muhammad

31.

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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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

33.

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.

34.

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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

43.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

44.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer