Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

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

Philo

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

11.

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

12.

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

Christie, Agatha

13.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

14.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

15.

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

Updike, John

16.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

17.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

18.

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

Mittleman, Stu

19.

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

Burns, George

20.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

21.

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

22.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

23.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

24.

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

Palmer, Arnold

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

35.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

42.

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

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

Hawn, Goldie

44.

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

Cass, Eli

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

48.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

49.

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

50.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.