Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ali, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

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

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

Christie, Agatha

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Burroughs, John

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

Ullman, Samuel

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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 you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Bible

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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