Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Palmer, R.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Ali, Muhammad

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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.

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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To grow old is to grow common. 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