Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Hope, Bob

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

15.

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

16.

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

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.

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.

19.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

21.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

22.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

23.

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

24.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb, Irish

27.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

30.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

31.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

32.

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

Carter, Lillian

33.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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 an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

37.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

38.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

41.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

45.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

48.

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

49.

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

50.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George