Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Johnson

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Paul, Jean

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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

10.

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

11.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

12.

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

Hope, Bob

13.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

15.

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

16.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

17.

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

18.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

19.

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

Philo

20.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

22.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

23.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

28.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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

30.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

33.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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

36.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

37.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

43.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

44.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

45.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

47.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Day, Doris

49.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.