Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Defoe, Daniel

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Hawn, Goldie

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

10.

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

Child, Lydia M.

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

15.

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

16.

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

Becker, May L.

17.

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

18.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

19.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

21.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

22.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Burns, George

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

28.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

29.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

30.

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

Palmer, Arnold

31.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

33.

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

Richards, Keith

34.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

36.

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

37.

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

Brookner, Anita

38.

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

Chopra, Deepak

39.

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.

40.

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

Stael, Germaine De

41.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

48.

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.

49.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

50.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.