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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Kronenberger, Louis

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

18.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

19.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

21.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

22.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

23.

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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

32.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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