Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

- Meyers, Ernest

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

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)

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

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

Byron, Lord

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hazlitt, William

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

27.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Rahel

34.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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.