Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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 isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Burke, Billie

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wordsworth, William

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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