Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Defoe, Daniel

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Mittleman, Stu

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Burns, George

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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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 is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Brookner, Anita

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.