Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

- Perry, Ralph B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Stael, Germaine De

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

10.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

11.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

12.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

15.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Christie, Agatha

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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

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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.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb