Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Greier, John

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.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

10.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

12.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

Updike, John

15.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

16.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

18.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

20.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

21.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

22.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

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

Nuveen, John

27.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

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

32.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

33.

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

Cope, Wendy

34.

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

35.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

38.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

39.

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

40.

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

41.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

42.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

44.

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

45.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

48.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor