Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Buruch, Andre B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Greier, John

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

10.

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

11.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

12.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

13.

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

14.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

17.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Burns, George

19.

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

20.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

21.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

22.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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.

24.

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

Christie, Agatha

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

29.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

30.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

34.

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

35.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

40.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To grow old is to grow common. 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

42.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

43.

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

Philo

44.

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

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

Hawn, Goldie

48.

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

Woolf, Virginia

49.

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

Chopra, Deepak

50.

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.