Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Hope, Bob

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

Browning, Robert

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Murphy, Eddie

10.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

11.

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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Yeats, William Butler

17.

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

Chopra, Deepak

18.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

23.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

24.

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

25.

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

Hope, Bob

26.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

27.

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

Collins, Mortimer

28.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

31.

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

32.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

33.

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

34.

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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To grow old is to grow common. 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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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

37.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

41.

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

Burroughs, John

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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.

43.

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

Christie, Agatha

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

47.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Steele, Sir Richard