Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Nuveen, John

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

10.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

18.

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

Greier, John

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

23.

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

Day, Doris

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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

25.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

26.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

30.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

31.

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

Johnson

33.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

34.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

35.

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

Hope, Bob

36.

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

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

41.

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

Cass, Eli

42.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gabriel, Peter

45.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

46.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.