Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Becker, May L.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

10.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

12.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

13.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

14.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

15.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

16.

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

Bible

17.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

19.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

20.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

21.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

22.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

23.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

24.

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

Young, Edward

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

26.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

27.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

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

29.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

30.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

31.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

32.

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

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

36.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

37.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

39.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

40.

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

41.

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)

42.

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

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

45.

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

Astaire, Fred

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward