Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Palmer, R.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Burns, George

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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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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

30.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

43.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Marx, Groucho

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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