Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Thurber, James

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

Astaire, Fred

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

10.

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

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

16.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

17.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

20.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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.

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

27.

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.

28.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

30.

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

Ullman, Samuel

31.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

34.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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

38.

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

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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

40.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

41.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

44.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Becker, May L.

46.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

49.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

50.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord