Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Cass, Eli

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

14.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

21.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

22.

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.

23.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

Brookner, Anita

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

31.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

38.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

41.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

42.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

43.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Steele, Sir Richard

45.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

46.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

47.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

49.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan