Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Browning, Robert

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Meir, Golda

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Day, Doris

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Updike, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

28.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

29.

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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

31.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

32.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Steele, Sir Richard

36.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian