Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

- Romulo, Carlos Pena

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Hope, Bob

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lehrer, Tom

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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 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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer