Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Updike, John

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Byron, Lord

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Richards, Keith

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell