Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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.

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

Hope, Bob

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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 closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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

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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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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

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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

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

Carlyle, 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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Young, Edward

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.