Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

10.

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Hope, Bob

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.