Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

12.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

14.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

19.

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

Bible

20.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

23.

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

Carter, Lillian

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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

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

28.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

29.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

32.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

34.

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

Powell, Anthony

35.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Turner, Tina

38.

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

Ball, Lucille

39.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

40.

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

Jung, Carl

41.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

43.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

45.

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

46.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

47.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

48.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

50.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George