Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Greier, John

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

11.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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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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

14.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

15.

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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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.

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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

Lehrer, Tom

20.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

21.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Chopra, Deepak

23.

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

Beckett, Samuel

24.

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

25.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

26.

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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

28.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

29.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

36.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

38.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

39.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

43.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Burns, George

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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

47.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Stael, Germaine De

50.

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