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

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Updike, John

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

Kanin, Garson

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

10.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

18.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

19.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

20.

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

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Palmer, R.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

24.

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

25.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

27.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

28.

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

Nuveen, John

30.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

32.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

37.

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

Mortimer, John

38.

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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

49.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon