Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

10.

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

11.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

12.

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

Yeats, William Butler

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

16.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

18.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

23.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

24.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

25.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

26.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

27.

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

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

30.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Burke, Billie

32.

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.

33.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

35.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

36.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

37.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

40.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

42.

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

43.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Burke, Billie

45.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

46.

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

47.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

49.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

50.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.