Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Greier, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Thurber, James

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

10.

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

11.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

12.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

17.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Astaire, Fred

20.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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

Chopra, Deepak

23.

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

24.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

25.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

26.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

27.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

31.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

32.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

33.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

36.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Collins, Mortimer

38.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

39.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

41.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

42.

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

Philo

43.

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

44.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

45.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

Christie, Agatha

47.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

48.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Day, Doris

50.

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