Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

10.

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

11.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Trotsky, Leon

19.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

20.

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

Fonda, Jane

21.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

22.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

25.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

26.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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

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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

29.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

32.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

33.

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

34.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

35.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

40.

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

41.

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

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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.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Hoagland, Edward

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

47.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

50.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas