Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Mittleman, Stu

Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.

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

Hope, Bob

2.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

3.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

4.

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

Gabriel, Peter

5.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

6.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

7.

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

8.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Yeats, William Butler

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

18.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

19.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Palmer, Arnold

23.

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

Lehrer, Tom

24.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

25.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

28.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

29.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

30.

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

31.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

32.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Jung, Carl

34.

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

35.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

36.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

37.

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

38.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

39.

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

Paul, Jean

40.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

41.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

43.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

46.

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

47.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

48.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

49.

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

50.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.