Motivational Quotes

Age

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

- Tish Grier

Best Quotes about Age

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

10.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

11.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

15.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

16.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

17.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

18.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

19.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

20.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

21.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

22.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

23.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

24.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

25.

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

26.

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

27.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

29.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

30.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

31.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

32.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

33.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

34.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

35.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

36.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

37.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

39.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

40.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

41.

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

Lucille Ball

42.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

43.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

44.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

45.

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

47.

Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.