Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Shakespeare, William

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Burke, Billie

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

10.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ullman, Samuel

14.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

17.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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.

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.

22.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

23.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Meyers, Ernest

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

28.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

29.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

31.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Bunuel, Luis

33.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

36.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

37.

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

Burke, Billie

38.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

39.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

40.

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

41.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

46.

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

Woolf, Virginia

47.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

49.

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.

50.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset