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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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.

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

Defoe, Daniel

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Greier, John

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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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

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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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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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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Wordsworth, William

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Richards, Keith

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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 though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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.

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang