Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

10.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

13.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

18.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Billings, Josh

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.