Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Les

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Palmer, R.

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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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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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.

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Burke, Billie

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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