Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Christie, Agatha

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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Burke, Billie

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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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

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Rostand, Jean

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.