Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

1.

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

Sharon Olds

2.

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

Carol Matthau

3.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

4.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

5.

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

gadgetgirl

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Lynn Johnston

9.

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

George Santayana

10.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Gloria Pitzer

14.

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

15.

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

Lucille Ball

16.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

17.

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

Homer

18.

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

Maurice Chevalier

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Lillian Carter

23.

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

Ellen Glasgow

24.

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

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Cyril Connolly

28.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

29.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

30.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Anouk Aimee

36.

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

Russell Baker

37.

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

Saki

38.

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

Betty Friedan

39.

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

John Scalzi

40.

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

H. L. Mencken

41.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

42.

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

Plutarch

43.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

45.

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

46.

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

Tom Stoppard

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Robinson Jeffers

50.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer