Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Mortimer, John

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hope, Bob

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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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.

11.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

12.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

13.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

14.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

15.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

23.

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

Burke, Billie

24.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

26.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

27.

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

28.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

29.

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

30.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

31.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

32.

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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

36.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

37.

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

Dressler, Marie

38.

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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

40.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

41.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

42.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

45.

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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

48.

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

Lerner, Max

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler