Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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.

10.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Becker, May L.

14.

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

Lehrer, Tom

15.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Palmer, Arnold

17.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

18.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

21.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

23.

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

24.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

25.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

29.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

30.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

31.

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

32.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

35.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

36.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

37.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

38.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

41.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

42.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

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

Christie, Agatha

45.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

46.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

47.

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

Powell, Anthony

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.