Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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.

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

Burke, Billie

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

Buck, Pearl S.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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.

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Ball, Lucille

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Billings, Josh

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.