Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Michael Pritchard

2.

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

3.

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

Russell Baker

4.

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

Sharon Olds

5.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

6.

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

Louise Nevelson

7.

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

gadgetgirl

8.

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

Plutarch

9.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10.

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

11.

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

H. L. Mencken

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Maurice Chevalier

14.

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

John Scalzi

15.

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

16.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

20.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

Lillian Carter

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.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

24.

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

Robinson Jeffers

25.

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

26.

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

Miriam Makeba

27.

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

28.

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

Elizabeth Aston

29.

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

Doug Larson

30.

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

George Santayana

31.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

Carol Matthau

36.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Betty Friedan

41.

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

42.

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

Homer

43.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

44.

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

45.

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

Saki

46.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

47.

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

Lucille Ball

48.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.