Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cass, Eli

13.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

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

Bunuel, Luis

15.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

16.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

17.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

19.

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

Becker, May L.

20.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

25.

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

26.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

28.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

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

Johnson

31.

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

32.

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

Burke, Billie

33.

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

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

38.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

40.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

41.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

42.

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

43.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

46.

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

Stael, Germaine De

47.

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

Hope, Bob

48.

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

49.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

50.

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.