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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carter, Lillian

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

10.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

12.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

13.

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

Updike, John

14.

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

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

20.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

21.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Hope, Bob

23.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

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

25.

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

Christie, Agatha

26.

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

27.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

28.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

33.

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

Kanin, Garson

34.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

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

Johnson

36.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

39.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

40.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

41.

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

42.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

46.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

47.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

48.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

50.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.