Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

- Rahel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Chevalier, Maurice

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gabriel, Peter

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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

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

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

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Cope, Wendy

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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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

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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.

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Proverb

42.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Burroughs, John

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese