Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Updike, John

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

Paul, Jean

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

17.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

18.

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

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

22.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

23.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

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

Burns, George

30.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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

Hope, Bob

33.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Astaire, Fred

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

37.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

38.

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

39.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

40.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

41.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

42.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

43.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Nuveen, John

49.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

50.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille