Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

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

Greier, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

13.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

14.

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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Lerner, Max

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

35.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Young, Edward

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Burroughs, John

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buruch, Andre B.