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

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Meir, Golda

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

18.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hope, Bob

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

39.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dressler, Marie