Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Age

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

Alfred North Whitehead

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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

Miriam Makeba

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Aristotle

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

Russell Baker

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

Plutarch

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

10.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Robert Benchley

12.

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

Gloria Pitzer

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.

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

Sharon Olds

15.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

16.

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

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.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

19.

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

20.

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

Michael Pritchard

21.

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

Lucille Ball

22.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23.

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

Elizabeth Aston

24.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

Lynn Johnston

26.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

27.

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

Louise Nevelson

28.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

32.

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

33.

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

Homer

34.

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

35.

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

George Santayana

36.

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

37.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

H. L. Mencken

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Groucho Marx

43.

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

Ellen Glasgow

44.

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

45.

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

Lillian Carter

46.

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

47.

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

Saki

48.

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

49.

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

Doug Larson

50.

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

Anouk Aimee