Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

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

Lucille Ball

3.

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

Doug Larson

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Cyril Connolly

8.

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

Lynn Johnston

9.

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

Groucho Marx

10.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.

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

Anouk Aimee

12.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

13.

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

George Santayana

14.

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

Lillian Carter

15.

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

Tom Stoppard

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

20.

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

Robinson Jeffers

21.

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

John Scalzi

22.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

24.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

29.

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

Miriam Makeba

30.

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

Ellen Glasgow

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

H. L. Mencken

36.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

37.

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

Plutarch

38.

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

gadgetgirl

39.

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

Saki

40.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

42.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Louise Nevelson

46.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

47.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.