Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The worst old age is that of the mind.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bible

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Updike, John

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

Greier, John

10.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

11.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.

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

Christie, Agatha

13.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

15.

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

16.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

17.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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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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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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

21.

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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

28.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

30.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

32.

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

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

34.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

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

Hope, Bob

36.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

41.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

43.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Astaire, Fred

47.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

48.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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