Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Rostand, Jean

10.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

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

12.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

13.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

14.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

15.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

16.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

17.

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

Edwards, Tryon

18.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

20.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

22.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

23.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

28.

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

29.

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

Bonstettin

30.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

31.

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

32.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

35.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Overstreet, Harry A.

37.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

38.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

39.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

40.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

41.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

42.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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.

44.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

45.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

46.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

48.

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.

49.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

50.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.