Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

- Jennings, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

11.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

14.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

15.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

17.

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

Carey, Joyce

18.

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

19.

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

Burns, George

20.

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

Rahel

21.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

26.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

27.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

28.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Gabriel, Peter

30.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

31.

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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Meir, Golda

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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

39.

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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

45.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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

47.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

48.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

49.

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

50.

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

Defoe, Daniel