Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Bible

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

10.

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.

11.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

12.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

13.

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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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

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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.

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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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

22.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

23.

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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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.

30.

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

Burke, Billie

31.

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

Young, Edward

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

36.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

37.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

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

39.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

41.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

42.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

43.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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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

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

48.

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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.