Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Cass, Eli

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

Defoe, Daniel

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Carter, Lillian

31.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Powell, Anthony

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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]

Bible

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar