Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Wilde, Oscar

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

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

Wharton, Edith

12.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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.

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

16.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

17.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Bunuel, Luis

19.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

20.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

21.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Brown, Captain J.

24.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

25.

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

26.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

27.

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.

28.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

29.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

30.

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

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

32.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

33.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

34.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

36.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Astaire, Fred

39.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

40.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Einstein, Albert