Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Dressler, Marie

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

12.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

15.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

16.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

17.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

21.

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

22.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

23.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

25.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

26.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

27.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

28.

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

Carey, Joyce

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Christie, Agatha

31.

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

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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

Rahel

33.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Marx, Groucho

36.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

37.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

38.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

39.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

40.

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

41.

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

42.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.