Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Proverb

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

10.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

14.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

15.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Burns, George

18.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

27.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

28.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

29.

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

30.

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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

34.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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.

40.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Carey, Joyce

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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

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

Young, Edward

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

Marx, Groucho

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Swift, Jonathan

49.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

50.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George