Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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.

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

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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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.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Wharton, Edith

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Bible

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Palmer, R.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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.