Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

10.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

11.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

12.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

14.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

15.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

16.

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

Ball, Lucille

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

21.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

23.

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

Tholuck

24.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

25.

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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

27.

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

28.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

29.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

30.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

31.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

32.

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

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

34.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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.

38.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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

40.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

41.

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

Brown, Les

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

43.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Burns, George

45.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

46.

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

Chopra, Deepak

47.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

49.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

50.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley