Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lehrer, Tom

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Powell, Anthony

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Meyers, Ernest

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Woolf, Virginia

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John