Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Age

1.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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

Doug Larson

3.

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

4.

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

Lillian Carter

5.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

6.

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

George Santayana

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

9.

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

Plutarch

10.

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

Michael Pritchard

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

13.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

14.

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

Robert Benchley

15.

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

Sharon Olds

16.

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

17.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

18.

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

Carol Matthau

19.

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

Bernard M. Baruch

20.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

21.

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

Anouk Aimee

22.

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

gadgetgirl

23.

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

24.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

25.

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

26.

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

H. L. Mencken

27.

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

28.

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

Miriam Makeba

29.

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

Betty Friedan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Tom Stoppard

33.

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

Elizabeth Aston

34.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

35.

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

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

Gloria Pitzer

38.

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

Louise Nevelson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ellen Glasgow

42.

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

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

45.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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