Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hazlitt, William

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

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

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Richards, Keith

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Mittleman, Stu

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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 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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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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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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Burns, George

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle