Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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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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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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