Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kanin, Garson

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

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

11.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Young, Edward

13.

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

14.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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

20.

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

21.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

22.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

23.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

24.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

25.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

26.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

30.

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

Philo

31.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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.

35.

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

Nuveen, John

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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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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

38.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

43.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Cass, Eli

48.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.