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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

11.

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

Paul, Jean

12.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

13.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

18.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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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

21.

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.

22.

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

Greier, John

23.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

25.

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

Chopra, Deepak

26.

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

Child, Lydia M.

27.

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

28.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

29.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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

Rahel

31.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Burns, George

33.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

39.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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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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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

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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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To grow old is to grow common. 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

48.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

49.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.