Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Young, Edward

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

Brown, Les

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Twain, Mark

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

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bible

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

15.

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

Burke, Billie

16.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

18.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Greier, John

20.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

22.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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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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

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

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.

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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

43.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

44.

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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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

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

Brown, Captain J.

47.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.