Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

12.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

13.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

16.

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

Child, Lydia M.

17.

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

18.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Burns, George

25.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

29.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Cope, Wendy

31.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

33.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

34.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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

40.

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

Brown, Captain J.

41.

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

42.

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.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

44.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

45.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine