Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Burke, Billie

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

12.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

13.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

14.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

15.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

18.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

19.

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

20.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

21.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

29.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

31.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

32.

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

33.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

38.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

39.

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

40.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

41.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

42.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

43.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

45.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

46.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Child, Lydia M.

49.

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

Chopra, Deepak

50.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander