Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

12.

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

13.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

15.

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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Paul, Jean

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

21.

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.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

23.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

24.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

25.

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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Proverb

28.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

29.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

32.

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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

37.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

40.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

41.

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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

44.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

47.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

48.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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