Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hope, Bob

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Becker, May L.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Collins, Mortimer

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Burns, George

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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 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

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith