Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Burroughs, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

14.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

18.

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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

21.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

22.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

23.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

24.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

25.

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

26.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

29.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

30.

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

31.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

37.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

38.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Bible

40.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

45.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

46.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

48.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard