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

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Hope, Bob

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

Hoagland, Edward

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Updike, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

15.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

16.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Mortimer, John

38.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

40.

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

41.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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

47.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach