Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Nuveen, John

10.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

12.

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

Wharton, Edith

13.

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 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

15.

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

Gabriel, Peter

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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.

18.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

21.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

24.

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.

25.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

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

Carter, Lillian

27.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

30.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

31.

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

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

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

35.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

36.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

37.

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

Burroughs, John

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

Johnson

40.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

41.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

43.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

44.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

48.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad