Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

18.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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

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

Palmer, R.

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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

30.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Kronenberger, Louis

33.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Hope, Bob

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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

39.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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

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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.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire