Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Brown, Les

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Beckett, Samuel

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Jung, Carl

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

Updike, John

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

10.

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

Rahel

11.

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

12.

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

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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

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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

15.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

16.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

17.

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

18.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

25.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

26.

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

Meyers, Ernest

27.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

28.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

29.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

32.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

33.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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.

35.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

36.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

37.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

39.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

43.

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

44.

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

Lehrer, Tom

45.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

46.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

49.

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

50.

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

Shakespeare, William