Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Hawn, Goldie

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Thurber, James

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

11.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

12.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

13.

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

Meir, Golda

14.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

16.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

20.

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

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Richards, Keith

25.

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

Lehrer, Tom

26.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

30.

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

Kanin, Garson

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Fonda, Jane

34.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

39.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

45.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

49.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

50.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

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