Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Billings, Josh

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Wharton, Edith

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Becker, May L.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Tusser, Thomas

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Dressler, Marie

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas