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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoagland, Edward

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

Astaire, Fred

11.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

12.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

13.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

14.

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

15.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

19.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

22.

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

Mittleman, Stu

23.

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

Burns, George

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

Nuveen, John

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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

28.

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

Tholuck

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

31.

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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

34.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

35.

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

Jung, Carl

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

40.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Proverb

43.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda