Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

1.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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

3.

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

Russell Baker

4.

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

5.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

6.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

7.

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

8.

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

Doug Larson

9.

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

Plutarch

10.

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

Tom Stoppard

11.

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

12.

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

Cyril Connolly

13.

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

Ellen Glasgow

14.

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

Anouk Aimee

15.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

16.

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

Miriam Makeba

17.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

18.

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

Michael Pritchard

19.

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

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.

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

Sharon Olds

22.

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

Maurice Chevalier

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

H. L. Mencken

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

30.

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

Betty Friedan

31.

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

Robinson Jeffers

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.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

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

George Santayana

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Lynn Johnston

37.

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

John Scalzi

38.

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

Saki

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gloria Pitzer

42.

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

Groucho Marx

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Louise Nevelson

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

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

49.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

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

Bernard M. Baruch