Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Wordsworth, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rahel

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Day, Doris

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Carter, Lillian

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

49.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita