Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tholuck

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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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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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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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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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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.

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.