Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hawn, Goldie

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.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cass, Eli

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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

17.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Brown, Captain J.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hope, Bob

23.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

24.

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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

32.

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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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

36.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Fonda, Jane

43.

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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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.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.