Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Child, Lydia M.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

10.

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

11.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

12.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

14.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

15.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

16.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

17.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

18.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

19.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

23.

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

Beckett, Samuel

24.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

26.

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

Lerner, Max

27.

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

Christie, Agatha

28.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

32.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Richards, Keith

34.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

37.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

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

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

41.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

42.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

43.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

44.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

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Age considers; youth ventures.