Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cass, Eli

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

Turner, Tina

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

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

14.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Trotsky, Leon

18.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

20.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burns, George

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Lerner, Max

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

30.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

31.

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.

32.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cato The Elder

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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.

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

Gabriel, Peter