Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Ellen Glasgow

2.

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

3.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

4.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

5.

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

Oscar Wilde

6.

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

Russell Baker

7.

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

Doug Larson

8.

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

9.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

10.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

12.

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

13.

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

Saki

14.

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

15.

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

Lynn Johnston

16.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

17.

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

18.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

21.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

22.

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

23.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

24.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

gadgetgirl

27.

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

Michael Pritchard

28.

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

Elizabeth Aston

29.

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

Cyril Connolly

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.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

32.

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

Betty Friedan

33.

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

Maurice Chevalier

34.

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

Sharon Olds

35.

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

Louise Nevelson

36.

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

37.

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

Lillian Carter

38.

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

39.

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

Lucille Ball

40.

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

Groucho Marx

41.

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

Miriam Makeba

42.

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

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

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

Gloria Pitzer

45.

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

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

John Scalzi

48.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

49.

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

50.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley