Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Proverb

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

Defoe, Daniel

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

11.

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.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Chevalier, Maurice

21.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

26.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

28.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

29.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

30.

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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

41.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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

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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.

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Ali, Muhammad

49.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil