Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Cass, Eli

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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

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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Brookner, Anita

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Day, Doris

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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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 a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De