Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Billings, Josh

10.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Steele, Sir Richard

15.

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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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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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

18.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Trotsky, Leon

27.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

28.

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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

30.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

31.

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

Greier, John

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

35.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hawn, Goldie

38.

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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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

40.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

41.

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

Burns, George

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

43.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

44.

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

Wharton, Edith

45.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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