Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Bunuel, Luis

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Palmer, R.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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 older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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