Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Nuveen, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Einstein, Albert

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hope, Bob

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Lerner, Max

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

41.

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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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.

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

Burns, George

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George 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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.