Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bunuel, Luis

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Burke, Billie

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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 be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Hope, Bob

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Burke, Billie

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Young, Edward

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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

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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

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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