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

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Young, Edward

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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.

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.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

10.

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

13.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

14.

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

Meyers, Ernest

15.

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

Becker, May L.

16.

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

17.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

18.

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

Cope, Wendy

19.

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

20.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

21.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

22.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

23.

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

24.

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

Chopra, Deepak

25.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

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

29.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

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.

32.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Trotsky, Leon

36.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

37.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

38.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

39.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

41.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

43.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

44.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

45.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

47.

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

48.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

50.

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

Bunuel, Luis