Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Thurber, James

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Wordsworth, William

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Lerner, Max

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

19.

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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Proverb

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Burns, George

40.

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

Edwards, Tryon

41.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Bunuel, Luis

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Defoe, Daniel

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.