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 mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

10.

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

11.

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

Carter, Lillian

12.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

17.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

18.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

23.

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

Nuveen, John

24.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

27.

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

Cato The Elder

28.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

29.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

31.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

Richards, Keith

34.

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

35.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

39.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

40.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

41.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

42.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

43.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

44.

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

Marx, Groucho

45.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

46.

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.

47.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Greier, John