Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

- Philo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Proverb

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Gabriel, Peter

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

12.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

14.

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

Tholuck

15.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

18.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

19.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

20.

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

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

Wharton, Edith

22.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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.

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

30.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cope, Wendy

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

45.

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

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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

48.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

49.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord