Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Meir, Golda

10.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

11.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

14.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Burke, Billie

17.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

20.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

22.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

23.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

24.

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

Bunuel, Luis

25.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

26.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

27.

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

28.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

Dressler, Marie

31.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

32.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

33.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Burke, Billie

37.

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

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

40.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

41.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

43.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

45.

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

Christie, Agatha

46.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

47.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

49.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.