Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

- Golding, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bible

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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)

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

11.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

12.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

14.

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

15.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

18.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

19.

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

20.

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

Greier, John

21.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

22.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

26.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

27.

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

28.

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

Cass, Eli

29.

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

Powell, Anthony

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

35.

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

Young, Edward

36.

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

Palmer, Arnold

37.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

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

Turner, Tina

39.

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

Day, Doris

40.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

41.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

42.

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

43.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

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

45.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

46.

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

47.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

48.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

49.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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