Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Turner, Tina

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Philo

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Turner, Tina

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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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 worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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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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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius