Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Moreau, Jeanne

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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.

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

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

Young, Edward

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

15.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

16.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Carter, Lillian

21.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

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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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

28.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

31.

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

Becker, May L.

32.

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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

34.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

Gabriel, Peter

36.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

37.

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

38.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

39.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

44.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

46.

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 is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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

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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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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]

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