Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Philo

14.

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

15.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

16.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Christie, Agatha

19.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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

21.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

22.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

23.

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

Vaughan, Henry

24.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

25.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

26.

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.

27.

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

Carey, Joyce

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

Kanin, Garson

30.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

31.

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

Rahel

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

34.

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

35.

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

Ali, Muhammad

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

39.

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

40.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Desmoulins, Camille

42.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

43.

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.

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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

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

46.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Burns, George

48.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey