Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

17.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Young, Edward

19.

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.

20.

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

Ullman, Samuel

21.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

23.

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

Astaire, Fred

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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

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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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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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

32.

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

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

38.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Palmer, R.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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