Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.

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

Christie, Agatha

2.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

3.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

4.

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

Burke, Billie

5.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

6.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

10.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

11.

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

Brown, Captain J.

12.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

13.

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

14.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

15.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

16.

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.

17.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

18.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

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

Burroughs, John

20.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

21.

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

22.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

23.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

24.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

26.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

27.

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

Johnson

28.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

32.

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

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.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

38.

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

Tholuck

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

42.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

43.

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

Vaughan, Henry

44.

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

Hawn, Goldie

45.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

49.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

50.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.