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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tholuck

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Paul, Jean

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Burke, Billie

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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