Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Browning, Robert

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Defoe, Daniel

11.

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.

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

15.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

16.

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

Palmer, Arnold

17.

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

18.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

19.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

20.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

21.

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

22.

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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

24.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

25.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

26.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

27.

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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

29.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

32.

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

33.

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

Stael, Germaine De

34.

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

Cato The Elder

35.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

36.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

37.

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

Astaire, Fred

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

41.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

44.

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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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

48.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler