Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Richards, Keith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Mortimer, John

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Powell, Anthony

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cass, Eli

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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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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]

Bible

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Kanin, Garson

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.