Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Mittleman, Stu

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

18.

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

Billings, Josh

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Carey, Joyce

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

27.

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

Burke, Billie

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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To grow old is to grow common. 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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Ullman, Samuel

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Dressler, Marie

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hope, Bob

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rostand, Jean

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Byron, Lord

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