Motivational Quotes

Age

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Age

1.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

2.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

3.

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

H. L. Mencken

4.

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

Homer

5.

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

George Santayana

6.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

7.

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

Oscar Wilde

8.

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

Robert Benchley

9.

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

Maurice Chevalier

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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

Lucille Ball

13.

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

Lillian Carter

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

John Scalzi

17.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

18.

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

Doug Larson

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Carol Matthau

22.

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

Betty Friedan

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.

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

25.

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

Lynn Johnston

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Gloria Pitzer

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Robinson Jeffers

31.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

32.

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

33.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

34.

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

35.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

36.

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

Sharon Olds

37.

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

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

40.

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

Tom Stoppard

41.

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

Miriam Makeba

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.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

44.

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

Saki

45.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

46.

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

47.

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

gadgetgirl

48.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

50.

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

Cyril Connolly

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