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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Palmer, R.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

11.

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

Becker, May L.

12.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

13.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Billings, Josh

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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.

18.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

19.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Carter, Lillian

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

24.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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.

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Hope, Bob

32.

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

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

Kanin, Garson

34.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jung, Carl

38.

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)

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

40.

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

Stael, Germaine De

41.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

43.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

45.

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

46.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

48.

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

49.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.