Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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]

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Mortimer, John

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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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.

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Buruch, Andre B.

39.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

47.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.