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

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

Young, Edward

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

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

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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Carter, Lillian

10.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

11.

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

Meir, Golda

12.

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

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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

18.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

21.

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

22.

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

Marx, Groucho

23.

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

24.

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

Powell, Anthony

25.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

27.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

34.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

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

38.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

40.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

41.

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

Cope, Wendy

42.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

43.

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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

45.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

46.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Palmer, R.

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