Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Burns, George

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Burns, George

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Dressler, Marie

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Paul, Jean

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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