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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Meir, Golda

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

10.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Burke, Billie

15.

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

16.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

17.

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

Collins, Mortimer

18.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

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

Woolf, Virginia

20.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Astaire, Fred

24.

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

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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

Fonda, Jane

28.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

29.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

31.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

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

Mortimer, John

35.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

37.

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

Philo

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille