Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Burns, George

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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.

11.

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

Meyers, Ernest

12.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Hope, Bob

14.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

15.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

16.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

17.

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

Woolf, Virginia

18.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Christie, Agatha

23.

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

24.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

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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

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

28.

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

29.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

32.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

33.

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

Fonda, Jane

34.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Thurber, James

40.

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

44.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

47.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

48.

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

Dressler, Marie

49.

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

50.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson