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

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

12.

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.

13.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Meyers, Ernest

20.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

21.

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

22.

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

Ullman, Samuel

23.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

24.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

25.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

26.

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

Palmer, Arnold

27.

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

Trotsky, Leon

28.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

29.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

30.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

31.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

32.

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

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

34.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

38.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

39.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

41.

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

Fonda, Jane

42.

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

Paul, Jean

43.

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

Browning, Robert

44.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

45.

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.

46.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

47.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

48.

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

49.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

50.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin