Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

12.

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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Burns, George

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

18.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

19.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

20.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

23.

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

24.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

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

Hope, Bob

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

29.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

30.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

35.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

39.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

40.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

41.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

43.

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

44.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

45.

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

46.

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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Rahel

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David