Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

- Young

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Moreau, Jeanne

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Arden, Elizabeth

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Greier, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Yeats, William Butler