Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Yeats, William Butler

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Hope, Bob

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck