Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Kronenberger, Louis

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

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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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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 age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

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

Cope, Wendy

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Brown, Captain J.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Lerner, Max

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

Becker, May L.

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil