Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Arden, Elizabeth

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

13.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

16.

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.

17.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

18.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

19.

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

Nuveen, John

20.

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

21.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

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

Updike, John

23.

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

24.

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

25.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

26.

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

Paul, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Defoe, Daniel

36.

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

37.

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

Yeats, William Butler

38.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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.

42.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

43.

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

44.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

45.

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

Mittleman, Stu

46.

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

47.

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

Cass, Eli

48.

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.

49.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

50.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.