Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Hoagland, Edward

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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Gabriel, Peter

13.

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)

14.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Trotsky, Leon

19.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

20.

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.

21.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Burns, George

24.

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

25.

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

Cope, Wendy

26.

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

Astaire, Fred

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

Yeats, William Butler

29.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

31.

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

Defoe, Daniel

32.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

33.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

34.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

35.

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

36.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

37.

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.

38.

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

Hope, Bob

39.

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

40.

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

Chopra, Deepak

41.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

42.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

43.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

44.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

45.

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.

46.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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