Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

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

12.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

14.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

15.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

16.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

17.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

18.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Trotsky, Leon

20.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Gabriel, Peter

22.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

25.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

26.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

27.

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.

28.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

29.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

30.

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.

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

41.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

42.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

43.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

44.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

46.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Fonda, Jane

48.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

49.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.