Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

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

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Hawn, Goldie

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Christie, Agatha

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

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

Updike, John

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Browning, Robert

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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