Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

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

Einstein, Albert

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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.

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Young, Edward

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Burke, Billie

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