Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Billings, Josh

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Proverb

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

Rahel

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

11.

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

Burns, George

12.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

13.

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

Stael, Germaine De

14.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

15.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

16.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

18.

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

19.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

20.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

22.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

23.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

25.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

26.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

27.

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

28.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

32.

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

33.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

35.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

36.

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

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

39.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

40.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

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

47.

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

Ullman, Samuel

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin