Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

- Kangas, Steve

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Turner, Tina

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Philo

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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)

11.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

12.

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

13.

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

Vaughan, Henry

14.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

15.

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

Palmer, Arnold

16.

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.

17.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

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

22.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Brookner, Anita

24.

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

Greier, John

25.

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

26.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

27.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Burns, George

33.

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

Fonda, Jane

34.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

39.

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

Chopra, Deepak

40.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

41.

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

Updike, John

42.

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

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

45.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Burke, Billie

48.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

49.

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

50.

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

Lerner, Max