Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

- Burke, Billie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bunuel, Luis

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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

12.

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

Cope, Wendy

13.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

17.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

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

Wordsworth, William

20.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

21.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

22.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

23.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Becker, May L.

25.

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.

26.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

31.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

32.

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

Meyers, Ernest

33.

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

34.

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

Chopra, Deepak

35.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

36.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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

39.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

40.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

41.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

42.

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

43.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.

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

45.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

46.

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

47.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

48.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

50.

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.