Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Nicklaus, Jack

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

41.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Chevalier, Maurice