Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Billings, Josh

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Cass, Eli

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Christie, Agatha

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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