Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Nuveen, John

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

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

Tholuck

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

10.

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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

12.

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

Burke, Billie

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Day, Doris

16.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

17.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

18.

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

Hope, Bob

19.

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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

24.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

25.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

33.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

39.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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