Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Vaughan, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Captain J.

12.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

15.

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

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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

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

18.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

19.

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

Astaire, Fred

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.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

22.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

24.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

28.

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

Hope, Bob

29.

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

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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

31.

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

32.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

33.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

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

35.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

36.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Meir, Golda

39.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

41.

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

Gabriel, Peter

42.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

43.

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

Bunuel, Luis

44.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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.

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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

47.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

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