Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Rostand, Jean

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Trotsky, Leon

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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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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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

25.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

29.

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

Wordsworth, William

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Carter, Lillian

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

35.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

41.

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

Burns, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.