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

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

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

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

Fonda, Jane

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

10.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

13.

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

Vaughan, Henry

14.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

Hope, Bob

18.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Brookner, Anita

20.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

22.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

23.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

24.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

29.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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.

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

40.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

41.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

42.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

43.

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

Day, Doris

44.

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

Yeats, William Butler

45.

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

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.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

48.

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

49.

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

Cato The Elder

50.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.