Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Defoe, Daniel

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Fonda, Jane

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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

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

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

Kanin, Garson

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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 secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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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 value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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

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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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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

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Greier, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hope, Bob

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Ullman, Samuel