Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Shakespeare, William

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

20.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Brookner, Anita

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Hope, Bob

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena