Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Trotsky, Leon

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

10.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

11.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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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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 am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Palmer, R.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Carter, Lillian

41.

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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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.

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

48.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Franklin, Benjamin