Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

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

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

11.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

12.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

15.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

16.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

17.

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.

18.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

21.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

22.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

23.

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

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

26.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Hawn, Goldie

28.

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

Paul, Jean

29.

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

30.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

32.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

33.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

34.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

35.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

36.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

40.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

42.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Christie, Agatha

48.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

49.

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

50.

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