Motivational Quotes

Age

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Age

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

10.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

11.

Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

12.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

13.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

14.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

15.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

16.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

17.

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

Lucille Ball

18.

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

19.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

21.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

22.

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

23.

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

24.

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

25.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

26.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

27.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

28.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

29.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

30.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

31.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

32.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

33.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

35.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

36.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

39.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

40.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

41.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

43.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

44.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

45.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

46.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

47.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

48.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.