Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

10.

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

Cope, Wendy

11.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

12.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

17.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

18.

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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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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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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Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Burke, Billie

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

Defoe, Daniel

24.

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

Becker, May L.

25.

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

Nuveen, John

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

28.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

29.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

31.

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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

33.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

41.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

42.

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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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

44.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

45.

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

Carey, Joyce

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

47.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

50.

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