Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The worst old age is that of the mind.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ullman, Samuel

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Day, Doris

10.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

11.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

12.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

15.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

16.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

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

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Johnson

22.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

24.

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.

25.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

26.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

27.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

28.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

29.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

30.

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

Christie, Agatha

31.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

32.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

33.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

35.

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

36.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

39.

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

Burns, George

40.

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

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Astaire, Fred

47.

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

48.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.