Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Twain, Mark

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Dressler, Marie

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

10.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

Updike, John

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

20.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

21.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

22.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

24.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

25.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

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

28.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

36.

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

Burroughs, John

37.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

40.

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

41.

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

Philo

42.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

44.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

45.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

46.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

47.

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.

48.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

49.

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

Child, Lydia M.

50.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De