Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Young, Edward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Mortimer, John

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Brown, Les

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.