Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Greer, Germaine

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hope, Bob

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

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Nuveen, John

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

10.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

11.

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

12.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

15.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

16.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

17.

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

Cato The Elder

18.

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

19.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

20.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

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

22.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

23.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

25.

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

Yeats, William Butler

26.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

27.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

30.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

33.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

38.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

Christie, Agatha

40.

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

41.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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.

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

Paul, Jean

44.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

46.

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

Chopra, Deepak

47.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

48.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

49.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

50.

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