Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rahel

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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Trotsky, Leon

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rostand, Jean

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Palmer, R.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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.