Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Paul, Jean

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

Turner, Tina

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Palmer, R.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Cope, Wendy

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hope, Bob

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.