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

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

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

12.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

13.

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

Dressler, Marie

14.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

16.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

Beckett, Samuel

18.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

19.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

20.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

24.

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.

25.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

29.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

30.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

33.

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.

34.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

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

36.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

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

40.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

41.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Hoagland, Edward

43.

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

44.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

45.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

46.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

47.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

48.

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

Updike, John

49.

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

50.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)