Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

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

11.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

13.

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

Day, Doris

14.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

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

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

22.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Bunuel, Luis

29.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

32.

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

Bible

33.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

35.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

37.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

38.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

40.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

41.

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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

43.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

44.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

45.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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

47.

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

Hope, Bob

48.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

49.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

50.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob