Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How can I die? I'm booked.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Dressler, Marie

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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

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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

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burke, Billie

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.