Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Swift, Jonathan

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Meir, Golda

10.

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

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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.

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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

21.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

22.

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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

24.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

25.

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

Paul, Jean

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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

28.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

29.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Carter, Lillian

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

33.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

34.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

35.

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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hazlitt, William

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

45.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

49.

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

Lehrer, Tom