Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mortimer, John

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Brown, Captain J.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

10.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Cass, Eli

12.

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

Burke, Billie

13.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

14.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

15.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

20.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

21.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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

25.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

26.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

29.

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

30.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

34.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

35.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

36.

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

Hope, Bob

37.

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

38.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

39.

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

40.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

41.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

42.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Desmoulins, Camille

45.

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

46.

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

Wharton, Edith

47.

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

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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

49.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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