Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Philo

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Brown, Les

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

13.

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

14.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

15.

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

Becker, May L.

16.

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

17.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Child, Lydia M.

19.

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

20.

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

Day, Doris

21.

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

22.

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

Burke, Billie

23.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

24.

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

25.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

26.

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

27.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

28.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

29.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

30.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

38.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

40.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

41.

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

Nuveen, John

42.

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

Lerner, Max

43.

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