Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Tholuck

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

Burns, George

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Swift, Jonathan

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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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

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Bible

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Nuveen, John

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth