Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Richards, Keith

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Fonda, Jane

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

17.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

19.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

21.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

Gabriel, Peter

29.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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

Burroughs, John

33.

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

34.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

37.

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

Hawn, Goldie

38.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

39.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

40.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

41.

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

42.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

43.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

44.

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

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Day, Doris

48.

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

Meyers, Ernest

49.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

50.

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