Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Desmoulins, Camille

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Swift, Jonathan

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

29.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

35.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

38.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

39.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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