Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bleasdale, Alan

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Buck, Pearl S.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Carey, Joyce

10.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

13.

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

Burns, George

14.

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

15.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

17.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

Christie, Agatha

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Palmer, Arnold

23.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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.

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.

26.

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

Lehrer, Tom

27.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

29.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

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

31.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

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

33.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

35.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

36.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

37.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

39.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

40.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

43.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

45.

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

Greier, John

46.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

48.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

49.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin