Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

- Desmoulins, Camille

Best Quotes about Age and aging

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

10.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

11.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

12.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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.

15.

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

Gabriel, Peter

16.

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

17.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

19.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

20.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

21.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

24.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

25.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

26.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

27.

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

28.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

29.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

30.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Hawn, Goldie

32.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Lehrer, Tom

34.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

36.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

37.

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

Brown, Captain J.

38.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

39.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

40.

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

Chopra, Deepak

41.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

42.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

43.

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

Young, Edward

44.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

45.

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.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

49.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

50.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey