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

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

Michael Pritchard

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

Plutarch

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

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

Carol Matthau

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Betty Friedan

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Lillian Carter

10.

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

Lucille Ball

11.

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

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

Gloria Pitzer

14.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

15.

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

Anouk Aimee

16.

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

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

John Scalzi

18.

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

19.

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

Doug Larson

20.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

21.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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

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

Saki

24.

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

Miriam Makeba

25.

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

26.

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

28.

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

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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

30.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Sharon Olds

34.

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

Tom Stoppard

35.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

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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

37.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

38.

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

39.

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

Ellen Glasgow

40.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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