Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Burroughs, John

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Twain, Mark

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Astaire, Fred

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Palmer, R.

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

Young, Edward