Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Richards, Keith

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Defoe, Daniel

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Cass, Eli

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Greier, John

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Hoagland, Edward

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hope, Bob

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If youth knew; if age could.