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

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

19.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Proverb

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.