Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

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

Fonda, Jane

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

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Carter, Lillian

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Richards, Keith

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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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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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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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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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