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

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

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

Mortimer, John

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Johnson

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

Hope, Bob

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

11.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Proverb

17.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Collins, Mortimer

19.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

20.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Brown, Les

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

Meir, Golda

25.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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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

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

42.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Minds ripen at very different ages.