Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Mortimer, John

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

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Meyers, Ernest

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Powell, Anthony

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Cass, Eli

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

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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

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Paul, Jean

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

40.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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