Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

15.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

16.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

17.

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

Browning, Robert

18.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

24.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

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

Bible

29.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

34.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

38.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Ali, Muhammad

44.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Burns, George

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Growing old is not growing up.