Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An old young man, will be a young old man.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Fonda, Jane

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

10.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

11.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

16.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

18.

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

Brown, Captain J.

19.

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

Updike, John

20.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

21.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

22.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

26.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

27.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

28.

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

29.

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

Greier, John

30.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

Meir, Golda

33.

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

Carter, Lillian

34.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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.

36.

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

Young, Edward

37.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

38.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

40.

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

41.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

42.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

45.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Palmer, Arnold

49.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

50.

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