Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

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

Kanin, Garson

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

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

20.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

21.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

25.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

26.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

31.

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

32.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

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

Day, Doris

34.

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

Meir, Golda

35.

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

36.

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

Wharton, Edith

37.

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

Woolf, Virginia

38.

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

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

42.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

43.

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.

44.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

45.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

46.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

47.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

48.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

49.

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