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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

11.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

12.

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

Palmer, R.

13.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

14.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

15.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

16.

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

Hawn, Goldie

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Ullman, Samuel

20.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

23.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

24.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

Philo

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

29.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

30.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

31.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

34.

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.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

38.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

40.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

42.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

46.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

47.

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

48.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

50.

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

Palmer, Arnold