Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Cyril Connolly

2.

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

3.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

4.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5.

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

Michael Pritchard

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

9.

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

Saki

10.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

John Scalzi

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

15.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Miriam Makeba

22.

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

gadgetgirl

23.

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

Betty Friedan

24.

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

Tom Stoppard

25.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

26.

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

Doug Larson

27.

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

Gloria Pitzer

28.

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

29.

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

Carol Matthau

30.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

31.

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

32.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

33.

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

Ellen Glasgow

34.

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

Lillian Carter

35.

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

Louise Nevelson

36.

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

George Santayana

37.

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

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

Plutarch

39.

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

40.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Anouk Aimee

44.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

45.

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

Lucille Ball

46.

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

47.

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

Maurice Chevalier

48.

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

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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