Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Turner, Tina

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Burns, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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)

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad