Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

- Arden, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bible

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

14.

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

15.

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

Collins, Mortimer

16.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

17.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

18.

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

Burke, Billie

19.

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

Becker, May L.

20.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

22.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Cass, Eli

24.

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

25.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

26.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

27.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

28.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

29.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

31.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

34.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

35.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

36.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

39.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

40.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

41.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

42.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

44.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

45.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

46.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

47.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

48.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

49.

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.

50.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.