Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

10.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Dressler, Marie

12.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

13.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

14.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

15.

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

Ullman, Samuel

16.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

17.

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

Marx, Groucho

18.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

19.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

20.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

22.

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

Yeats, William Butler

23.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

28.

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

Palmer, R.

29.

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

Billings, Josh

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

32.

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

33.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

34.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

36.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

39.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

40.

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

Hoagland, Edward

41.

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

Ball, Lucille

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

44.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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