Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

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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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.

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Ullman, Samuel

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

35.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Marx, Groucho

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom