Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Doug Larson

Best Quotes about Age

1.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

2.

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

Russell Baker

3.

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

Tom Stoppard

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Lillian Carter

6.

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

Betty Friedan

7.

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

Anouk Aimee

8.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

12.

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

Robert Benchley

13.

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

14.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

15.

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

Maurice Chevalier

16.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

17.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

George Santayana

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Cyril Connolly

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Louise Nevelson

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

26.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

27.

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

Michael Pritchard

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

31.

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

Saki

32.

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

Lucille Ball

33.

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

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

36.

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

John Scalzi

37.

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

Ellen Glasgow

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

Doug Larson

40.

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

Lynn Johnston

41.

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

Carol Matthau

42.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

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

gadgetgirl

44.

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

Miriam Makeba

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

49.

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

50.

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