Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Cass, Eli

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

Billings, Josh

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Dressler, Marie

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

29.

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

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

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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.

47.

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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

Trotsky, Leon