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

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

10.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

11.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

13.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

15.

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

16.

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

Burke, Billie

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

20.

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

21.

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

22.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

24.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Ullman, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

33.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

35.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

38.

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

39.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

40.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

41.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

42.

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.

43.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Brookner, Anita

47.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

49.

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

50.

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

Thurber, James