Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Powell, Anthony

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hope, Bob

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

29.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Woolf, Virginia

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar