Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Rostand, Jean

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

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

Updike, John

12.

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

13.

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

Hawn, Goldie

14.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

16.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

17.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

18.

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

Ali, Muhammad

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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.

25.

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

Cope, Wendy

26.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

27.

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

28.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

29.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

30.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

31.

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

32.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

33.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

35.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

37.

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

Gabriel, Peter

38.

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

39.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

41.

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

42.

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

Carter, Lillian

43.

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

44.

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

Day, Doris

45.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

49.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

50.

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