Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cato The Elder

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

Young, Edward

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

10.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

11.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

13.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

14.

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

Ali, Muhammad

15.

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

Brookner, Anita

16.

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

Trotsky, Leon

17.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

18.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

19.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

21.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

22.

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.

23.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

24.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

30.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

32.

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

Becker, May L.

33.

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

34.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

35.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

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

Hawn, Goldie

37.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

38.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

39.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

Fonda, Jane

43.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

45.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

49.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

50.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.