Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is the verdict of life.

- Barr, Amelia E.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

10.

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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

15.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

17.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Hope, Bob

19.

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

20.

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

Hawn, Goldie

21.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

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

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Brown, Captain J.

27.

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

Greier, John

28.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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)

31.

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

Carey, Joyce

32.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

33.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

34.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

36.

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

Cass, Eli

37.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cope, Wendy

47.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

48.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.

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

50.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible