Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Powell, Anthony

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

11.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Hope, Bob

17.

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

Gabriel, Peter

18.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

19.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

22.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Christie, Agatha

24.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

25.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

28.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

29.

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

Hope, Bob

30.

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

31.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

32.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

33.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

34.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

36.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Mittleman, Stu

38.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

39.

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

40.

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

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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

42.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

43.

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

44.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

46.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

50.

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