Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Age

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

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Lillian Carter

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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

Ellen Glasgow

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Louise Nevelson

10.

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

Lucille Ball

11.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

13.

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

Anouk Aimee

14.

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

Lynn Johnston

15.

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

Betty Friedan

16.

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

17.

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

Robinson Jeffers

18.

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

Carol Matthau

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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.

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

24.

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

Tom Stoppard

25.

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

26.

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

Plutarch

27.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

Robert Benchley

31.

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

Maurice Chevalier

32.

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

33.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

37.

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

38.

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

John Scalzi

39.

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

40.

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

Michael Pritchard

41.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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

Sharon Olds

43.

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

Groucho Marx

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Miriam Makeba

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

50.

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