Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Greer, Germaine

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Wilde, Oscar

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Burke, Billie

10.

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.

11.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

13.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

14.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

15.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Collins, Mortimer

21.

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

Yeats, William Butler

22.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

23.

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

Powell, Anthony

24.

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

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

26.

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

27.

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

28.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

29.

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

Vaughan, Henry

30.

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

Chopra, Deepak

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

38.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

39.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

40.

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

41.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

42.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

44.

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

45.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

46.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

48.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

49.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

50.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William