Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Richards, Keith

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

Gabriel, Peter

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Burns, George

14.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

15.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

18.

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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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

24.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

25.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

26.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

28.

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

29.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

32.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

35.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

36.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

38.

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

Brown, Les

39.

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

40.

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

41.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

45.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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 is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

49.

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

Dressler, Marie

50.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William