Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Edward

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.