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

1.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

2.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

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

7.

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

8.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

9.

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

10.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

12.

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

Tholuck

13.

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

14.

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

Young, Edward

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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

Richards, Keith

17.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Johnson

23.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Fonda, Jane

27.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

29.

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

Nuveen, John

30.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

35.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

36.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

38.

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

39.

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

Meyers, Ernest

40.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

41.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

42.

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

43.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

45.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

46.

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

Carter, Lillian

47.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Powell, Anthony

50.

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

Browning, Robert