Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Louise Nevelson

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

2.

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

Robert Benchley

3.

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

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

7.

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

Saki

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.

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

Ellen Glasgow

10.

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

H. L. Mencken

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

George Santayana

13.

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

Lynn Johnston

14.

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

Maurice Chevalier

15.

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

Miriam Makeba

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

20.

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

Cyril Connolly

21.

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

22.

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

Betty Friedan

23.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

24.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

25.

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

26.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

27.

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

Doug Larson

28.

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

29.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Gloria Pitzer

31.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

Louise Nevelson

33.

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

Anouk Aimee

34.

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

Robinson Jeffers

35.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

36.

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

37.

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

Lillian Carter

38.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

39.

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

gadgetgirl

40.

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

Carol Matthau

41.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

42.

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

43.

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

Tom Stoppard

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

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.