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 have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thurber, James

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

14.

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

Bunuel, Luis

15.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

17.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

20.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Woolf, Virginia

26.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

27.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

29.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Philo

32.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

33.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

34.

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

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

38.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

39.

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

Mittleman, Stu

40.

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

Vaughan, Henry

41.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

42.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

43.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

44.

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

Powell, Anthony

45.

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

Christie, Agatha

46.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

47.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

48.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

49.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin