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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Swift, Jonathan

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

10.

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

11.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

12.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

14.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

17.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

18.

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

19.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

20.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

21.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

24.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

25.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

27.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

28.

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

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Mortimer, John

31.

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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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

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

Proverb

35.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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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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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

41.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Burroughs, John

45.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Byron, Lord

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Buck, Pearl S.