Motivational Quotes

Age

I grow more intense as I age.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Best Quotes about Age

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

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

Groucho Marx

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

Sharon Olds

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

Miriam Makeba

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

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

Saki

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

Maurice Chevalier

10.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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

Homer

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

17.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

18.

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

Robinson Jeffers

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Tom Stoppard

21.

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

22.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

23.

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

John Scalzi

24.

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

25.

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

Cyril Connolly

26.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

gadgetgirl

29.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

30.

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

Betty Friedan

31.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

32.

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

Michael Pritchard

33.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

34.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

35.

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

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

Robert Benchley

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Lillian Carter

39.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

H. L. Mencken

41.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

42.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

43.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the'Dilbert guy.'Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be'that stabbin'Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams

44.

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

Lucille Ball

45.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

46.

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

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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

48.

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

49.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

50.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren