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

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

Rahel

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

Steele, Sir Richard

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Meyers, Ernest

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rostand, Jean

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Einstein, Albert

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William