Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

- Carr, Emily

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carter, Lillian

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Meir, Golda

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie