Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Chopra, Deepak

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

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

Burroughs, John

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

15.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

17.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

18.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

19.

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

20.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

21.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

24.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

25.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

26.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

30.

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.

31.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

32.

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

33.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

34.

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

Yeats, William Butler

35.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

36.

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

Greier, John

37.

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

38.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

39.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

40.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

41.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

43.

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

Fonda, Jane

44.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

45.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

47.

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

48.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

49.

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

50.

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

Young, Edward