Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Moreau, Jeanne

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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 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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Burns, George

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Astaire, Fred