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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lehrer, Tom

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Hazlitt, William

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Powell, Anthony

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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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

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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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 is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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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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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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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