Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Philo

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

Bunuel, Luis

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

13.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

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

Young, Edward

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

21.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

22.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Child, Lydia M.

26.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

27.

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

28.

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

Cass, Eli

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

31.

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

32.

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

Collins, Mortimer

33.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

34.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

36.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

38.

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

39.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

40.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

41.

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

42.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

43.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

46.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre