Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

- Carter, Lillian

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

10.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

11.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

14.

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

Greier, John

15.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Edward

19.

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

Palmer, R.

20.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

25.

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

26.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

27.

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

28.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

29.

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

Burroughs, John

30.

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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

35.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

45.

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

Paul, Jean

46.

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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

48.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

49.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.