Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

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

Day, Doris

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Collins, Mortimer

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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.

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Astaire, Fred

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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

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine