Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Christie, Agatha

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Greier, John

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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.

Beckett, Samuel

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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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

40.

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

Byron, Lord

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri