Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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.

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

Browning, Robert

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hawn, Goldie

13.

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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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tholuck

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Proverb

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wharton, Edith

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

30.

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

Young, Edward

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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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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

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burns, George

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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 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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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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.

49.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.