Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Mortimer, John

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Rahel

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Greier, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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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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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.

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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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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Franklin, Benjamin