Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Meyers, Ernest

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Byron, Lord

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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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

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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

Meir, Golda

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George 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

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.