Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Meir, Golda

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

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

Mortimer, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Rahel

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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

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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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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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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.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Bible

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Hope, Bob

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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

Meyers, Ernest