Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

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

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Ullman, Samuel

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Christie, Agatha

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Byron, Lord

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

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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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.