Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Gabriel, Peter

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Day, Doris

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

Rostand, Jean

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

10.

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.

11.

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

Nuveen, John

12.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

14.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

15.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

16.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Gabriel, Peter

20.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

22.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

28.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

37.

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

38.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

39.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

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

Trotsky, Leon

42.

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

43.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

44.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

45.

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

46.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

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.

50.

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