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

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

Burke, Billie

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Palmer, R.

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.