Motivational Quotes

Age

You're never too old to become younger.

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Sharon Olds

2.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

3.

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

gadgetgirl

4.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

5.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.

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

George Santayana

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Tom Stoppard

10.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

11.

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

Lucille Ball

12.

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

Lillian Carter

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

15.

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

John Scalzi

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.

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

Michael Pritchard

18.

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

Miriam Makeba

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Robert Benchley

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Russell Baker

25.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

26.

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

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.

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

29.

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

Louise Nevelson

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

33.

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

34.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

36.

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

37.

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

Anouk Aimee

38.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

39.

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

40.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

41.

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

Saki

42.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

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

Doug Larson

44.

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

45.

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

Ellen Glasgow

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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