Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Wordsworth, William

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

13.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

14.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

18.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

19.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

20.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

25.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

26.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

27.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

29.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

30.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

31.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

32.

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

Young, Edward

33.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

34.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

35.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

37.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

38.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

39.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

41.

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

Beckett, Samuel

42.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

43.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

44.

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

Cato The Elder

45.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

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.

47.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

48.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

49.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.