Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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.

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

18.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Burke, Billie

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

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cass, Eli

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Brookner, Anita

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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.