Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hope, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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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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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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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Proverb

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Lehrer, Tom

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burke, Billie

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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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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Proverb, Irish

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