Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

- Weldon, Fay

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Ball, Lucille

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Burke, Billie

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

Arden, Elizabeth

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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 years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, 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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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Burns, George

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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

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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.

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.