Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Nuveen, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Marx, Groucho

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

18.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Einstein, Albert

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

37.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Hawn, Goldie

44.

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

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von