Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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 have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

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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

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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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.

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Palmer, R.

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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.