Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

- Allen, Hervey

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

10.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

11.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

12.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

13.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

14.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

16.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

18.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

19.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

23.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

24.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

25.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

26.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

27.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

32.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

33.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

34.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

35.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

36.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

37.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

41.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

42.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

44.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

45.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

46.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

48.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.