Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Kanin, Garson

12.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

13.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

18.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

26.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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

34.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

39.

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

Meyers, Ernest

40.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.