Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

Johnson

12.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Cass, Eli

19.

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

Ali, Muhammad

20.

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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

23.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

26.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stael, Germaine De

30.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

32.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

34.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

35.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

37.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

38.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

39.

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

Tholuck

40.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Burns, George

43.

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

44.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.