Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

10.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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

12.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

13.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

14.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

17.

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

Kanin, Garson

18.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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.

21.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

27.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

28.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

Dressler, Marie

31.

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

32.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

33.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

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

Burns, George

36.

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

37.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

38.

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

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

41.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Carter, Lillian

43.

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

Jung, Carl

44.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

46.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

47.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

48.

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

49.

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

Lehrer, Tom

50.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith