Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

10.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

12.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Philo

15.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

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

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

Burke, Billie

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

22.

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

Swift, Jonathan

23.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

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

Hope, Bob

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

28.

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

Powell, Anthony

29.

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

30.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

32.

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

Trotsky, Leon

33.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

34.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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

37.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

38.

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

39.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

40.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

42.

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

Updike, John

43.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.