Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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