Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Billings, Josh

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Hope, Bob

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Lehrer, Tom

22.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

24.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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

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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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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beckett, Samuel

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Thurber, James

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kanin, Garson

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler