Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Updike, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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)

12.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

13.

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

Young, Edward

14.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

15.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

17.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

18.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

23.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

25.

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

Carter, Lillian

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Burns, George

28.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

29.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

30.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

32.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

33.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

34.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

35.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

36.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

37.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

38.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

40.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Child, Lydia M.

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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

Dressler, Marie

47.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Trotsky, Leon

49.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.