Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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.

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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

13.

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

14.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

16.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

22.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

23.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

26.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

27.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

28.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

30.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

34.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Becker, May L.

36.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

37.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

38.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Proverb

42.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

43.

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

44.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

45.

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

Richards, Keith

46.

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

47.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Marx, Groucho