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

1.

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

Updike, John

2.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

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

Byron, Lord

4.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

6.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

7.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

8.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

9.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Nuveen, John

11.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

12.

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

13.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

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

Jung, Carl

15.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

16.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

17.

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

Meyers, Ernest

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

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

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

23.

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

24.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

25.

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

26.

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

Burns, George

27.

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

Astaire, Fred

28.

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

29.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

31.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

32.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Carter, Lillian

35.

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

Hawn, Goldie

36.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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.

46.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

48.

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

Day, Doris

49.

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.

50.

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

Lerner, Max