Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Twain, Mark

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

13.

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

Jung, Carl

14.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

15.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

20.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

22.

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

23.

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

Burns, George

24.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

25.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

29.

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

30.

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

31.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

32.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

33.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

35.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

36.

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

37.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

40.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

45.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson

48.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

49.

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

50.

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

Meyers, Ernest