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

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Wordsworth, William

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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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)

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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To grow old is to grow common. 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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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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Updike, John

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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