Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Proverb

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson

12.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Jung, Carl

14.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

15.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

16.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

17.

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

Updike, John

18.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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.

21.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

22.

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

Rahel

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

25.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Dressler, Marie

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Hawn, Goldie

33.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

38.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

39.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

40.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Burns, George

42.

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

43.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

Hope, Bob

45.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

46.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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