Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

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.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jung, Carl

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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 years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Burke, Billie

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lerner, Max

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Richards, Keith

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin