Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rahel

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

27.

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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