Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Palmer, R.

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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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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 trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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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

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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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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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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 have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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]

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