Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Cope, Wendy

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mittleman, Stu

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

13.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Christie, Agatha

15.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

18.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

24.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

Yeats, William Butler

26.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

27.

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

28.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

29.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

30.

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

Chopra, Deepak

31.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

32.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

33.

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

34.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

35.

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

36.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

37.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

38.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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

Johnson

40.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

41.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

44.

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

45.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

46.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

47.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

48.

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

Defoe, Daniel

49.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.