Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hazlitt, William

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Palmer, R.

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

Byron, Lord

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ullman, Samuel

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Burroughs, John

43.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Burke, Billie

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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