Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Fonda, Jane

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

10.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

11.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

13.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

15.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

16.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

21.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

22.

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

23.

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

Ullman, Samuel

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

28.

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

Yeats, William Butler

29.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

30.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

31.

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

32.

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

Mortimer, John

33.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

34.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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.

36.

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

Cass, Eli

37.

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

38.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

39.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

Hope, Bob

42.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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