Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Palmer, R.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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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

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

39.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Collins, Mortimer