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

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

10.

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

11.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

14.

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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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Christie, Agatha

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

28.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Richards, Keith

30.

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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

33.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

34.

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

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

40.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

41.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

44.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

45.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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