Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Defoe, Daniel

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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

Palmer, R.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Burke, Billie

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.