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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Becker, May L.

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

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Hazlitt, William

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

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

Meyers, Ernest

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

10.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

11.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

14.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

17.

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.

18.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

20.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

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

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

25.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

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

Burns, George

27.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

33.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

34.

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

35.

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.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

39.

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

Palmer, Arnold

40.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

41.

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

Hawn, Goldie

42.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

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

45.

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

Burns, George

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

47.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

48.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

49.

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

Wharton, Edith

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