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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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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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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Bible

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Burke, Billie

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage