Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Russell Baker

2.

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

3.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

4.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

5.

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

6.

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

7.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

8.

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

9.

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

Gloria Pitzer

10.

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

Michael Pritchard

11.

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

gadgetgirl

12.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13.

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

Miriam Makeba

14.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

15.

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

Elizabeth Aston

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the'Dilbert guy.'Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be'that stabbin'Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams

18.

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

19.

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

Lillian Carter

20.

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

Ellen Glasgow

21.

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

George Santayana

22.

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

23.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lucille Ball

29.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

30.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

31.

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

Doug Larson

32.

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

Carol Matthau

33.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

34.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

36.

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

Lynn Johnston

37.

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

John Scalzi

38.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

39.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

40.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

41.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

42.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

43.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

44.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

45.

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

Anouk Aimee

46.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.