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

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

13.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

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

15.

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

16.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

17.

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

Philo

18.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

21.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

22.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

23.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

24.

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

25.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

26.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

27.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

29.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

30.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

32.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Beckett, Samuel

36.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

38.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

39.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

40.

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

Hope, Bob

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Burroughs, John

45.

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

Powell, Anthony

46.

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

Meyers, Ernest

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

48.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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

50.

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

Bunuel, Luis