Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Christie, Agatha

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Powell, Anthony

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

10.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

12.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

16.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

18.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

19.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

20.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

21.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

22.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

23.

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

Edwards, Tryon

24.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

25.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

26.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

27.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

28.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

Meir, Golda

31.

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.

32.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Trotsky, Leon

34.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

35.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

37.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Chopra, Deepak

40.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

41.

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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

48.

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

Burke, Billie

49.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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