Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Proverb, Irish

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

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

Hope, Bob

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

12.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Brown, Les

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

28.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Shakespeare, William

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Hope, Bob

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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