Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It takes a long time to become young.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Burns, George

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

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

Burns, George

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Christie, Agatha

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

22.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Bible

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

Kanin, Garson

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Byron, Lord

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Day, Doris

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

Becker, May L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hope, Bob

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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.