Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Christie, Agatha

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Carey, Joyce

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

10.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

11.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

13.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

16.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

19.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Day, Doris

24.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

30.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

31.

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

Nuveen, John

32.

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

33.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

34.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

35.

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

36.

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

Burns, George

37.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

38.

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

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

42.

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

Chopra, Deepak

43.

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

44.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

47.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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