Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

14.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Bunuel, Luis

18.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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 is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

25.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Becker, May L.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Brown, Les

36.

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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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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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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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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.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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