Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Chopra, Deepak

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

10.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

12.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

16.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

20.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

21.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

23.

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

24.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

25.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

28.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

29.

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

Browning, Robert

30.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

33.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

34.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

35.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

38.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

45.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

46.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

47.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

48.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

50.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.