Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hope, Bob

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Hope, Bob

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Collins, Mortimer

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Kronenberger, Louis

30.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Christie, Agatha

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.