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

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Browning, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Cass, Eli

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir 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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.