Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Becker, May L.

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

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

Updike, John

10.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

13.

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

14.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

15.

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

16.

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

17.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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

19.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

22.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

24.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

25.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

27.

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.

28.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

30.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

31.

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

Cope, Wendy

32.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

33.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

34.

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

Palmer, Arnold

35.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

36.

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

Brookner, Anita

37.

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

38.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

40.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

42.

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.

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

Turner, Tina

44.

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

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

47.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.