Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

- Arnold, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Burke, Billie

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

12.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Palmer, R.

14.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

15.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

16.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

17.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

21.

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

22.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

24.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

26.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

27.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

28.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

29.

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

30.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

31.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

32.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

33.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

35.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

38.

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

Philo

39.

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

Becker, May L.

40.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

41.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

42.

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

Christie, Agatha

43.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

45.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

47.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

50.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest