Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Age

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

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

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

Louise Nevelson

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

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

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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

gadgetgirl

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

H. L. Mencken

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

12.

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

Michael Pritchard

13.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

14.

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

Maurice Chevalier

15.

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

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.

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

Tom Stoppard

18.

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

Ellen Glasgow

19.

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

20.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.

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

Saki

22.

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

23.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

24.

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

Miriam Makeba

25.

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

Robert Benchley

26.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

27.

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

Homer

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

31.

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

Robinson Jeffers

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

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

35.

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

Lucille Ball

36.

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

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Lillian Carter

39.

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

40.

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

Russell Baker

41.

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

42.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

43.

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