Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Mittleman, Stu

Best Quotes about Age and aging

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles 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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Rahel

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Burke, Billie

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.