Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Vaughan, Henry

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hope, Bob

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Powell, Anthony

10.

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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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

17.

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

Day, Doris

18.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

19.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

23.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

25.

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

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

34.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Brown, Les

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William