Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Burns, George

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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 last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Burke, Billie

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Franklin, Benjamin