Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Carol Matthau

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Lucille Ball

2.

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

Cyril Connolly

3.

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

gadgetgirl

4.

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

5.

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

Lynn Johnston

6.

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

Gloria Pitzer

7.

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

Robert Benchley

8.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

9.

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

Maurice Chevalier

10.

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

Tom Stoppard

11.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

12.

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

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

15.

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

Michael Pritchard

16.

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

Carol Matthau

17.

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

H. L. Mencken

18.

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

19.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

22.

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

23.

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

George Santayana

24.

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

25.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

26.

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

John Scalzi

27.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

28.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

31.

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

32.

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

Doug Larson

33.

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

Betty Friedan

34.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

35.

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

Sharon Olds

36.

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

Plutarch

37.

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

Groucho Marx

38.

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

Robinson Jeffers

39.

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

40.

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

Saki

41.

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

Anouk Aimee

42.

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

Homer

43.

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

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

46.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

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

Ellen Glasgow

49.

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

50.

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