Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Hope, Bob

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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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.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wordsworth, William