Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Chopra, Deepak

12.

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

13.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

16.

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

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

19.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

20.

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

Kanin, Garson

21.

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

Philo

22.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

24.

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.

25.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

26.

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

27.

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

Fonda, Jane

28.

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

Becker, May L.

29.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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.

31.

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

Cope, Wendy

32.

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

33.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

34.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

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

36.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

37.

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

Hope, Bob

38.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

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

40.

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

Hope, Bob

41.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

42.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

43.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

44.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

48.

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

Dressler, Marie

49.

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

50.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita