Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ullman, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Wharton, Edith

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Burns, George

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

10.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

11.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

12.

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

Cass, Eli

13.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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

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

Ullman, Samuel

18.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Burke, Billie

20.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

23.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

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

25.

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

Turner, Tina

26.

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

27.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

28.

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

29.

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

Palmer, R.

30.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

31.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

35.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

36.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

37.

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

38.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

42.

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

Chopra, Deepak

43.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

44.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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

Tholuck

46.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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