Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Kanin, Garson

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Moreau, Jeanne

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

10.

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

Beckett, Samuel

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

14.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

18.

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

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

25.

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

Cass, Eli

26.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

27.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

28.

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

Richards, Keith

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

31.

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

Christie, Agatha

32.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

33.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

34.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

35.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

39.

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

Turner, Tina

40.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

Tholuck

43.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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.

48.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

49.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

50.

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