Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hawn, Goldie

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Cass, Eli

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

18.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

19.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

20.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

21.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Nuveen, John

26.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

27.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

28.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

Johnson

31.

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

Meyers, Ernest

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Greier, John

35.

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

36.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

37.

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

Hope, Bob

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Woolf, Virginia

40.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

Updike, John

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin