Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

- Engel, Sigmund Z.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Swift, Jonathan

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

15.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Nuveen, John

17.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

18.

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

Burns, George

19.

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

20.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

21.

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

22.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

23.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

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

Day, Doris

25.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

26.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

27.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

28.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

29.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

31.

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.

32.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

33.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

34.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

35.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

36.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

37.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

38.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

39.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

42.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

43.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

44.

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

45.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

46.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

47.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

48.

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

49.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

50.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom