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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Johnson

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

11.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

14.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

15.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

17.

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)

18.

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

Brookner, Anita

19.

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

Cope, Wendy

20.

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

21.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

22.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

23.

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

24.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

27.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

29.

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

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

35.

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

36.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

37.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

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

39.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

43.

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

Wordsworth, William

44.

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

Hoagland, Edward

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

48.

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.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

50.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia