Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

- Boyse, J. F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Tholuck

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

14.

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

15.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Hawn, Goldie

17.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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

Johnson

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

22.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

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

Bible

25.

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)

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Brown, Captain J.

28.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

30.

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

Wharton, Edith

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

35.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

36.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

37.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

38.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Updike, John

40.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

41.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

46.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

47.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

48.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

50.

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