Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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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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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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Ullman, Samuel

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

46.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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