Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Burke, Billie

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

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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

14.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

17.

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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Burke, Billie

28.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

32.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

34.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

36.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

40.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

41.

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

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

43.

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

Dressler, Marie

44.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

47.

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

Thurber, James

48.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maugham, W. Somerset