Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Christie, Agatha

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Johnson

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

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

Becker, May L.

11.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

12.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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

15.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

16.

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

Burns, George

17.

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

Christie, Agatha

18.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

19.

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

Palmer, Arnold

20.

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

21.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

22.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

23.

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

24.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

25.

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

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Hope, Bob

28.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

31.

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

32.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

33.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

35.

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

Mittleman, Stu

36.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

43.

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

44.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

45.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

46.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.