Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Defoe, Daniel

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

10.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

12.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

19.

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

Tholuck

20.

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

21.

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

Lehrer, Tom

22.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

26.

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

Palmer, R.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

28.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

29.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb, Irish

36.

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

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

42.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

43.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

46.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

48.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth