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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ullman, Samuel

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Byron, Lord

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Kanin, Garson

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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 woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

50.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.