Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Carter, Lillian

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

12.

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.

13.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

15.

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

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

Greier, John

20.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

24.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

26.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

27.

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

28.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

29.

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

Bunuel, Luis

30.

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

Turner, Tina

31.

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

32.

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

Lerner, Max

33.

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

Palmer, Arnold

34.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

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

Brookner, Anita

36.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

37.

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

38.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

42.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

43.

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

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

48.

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

Rahel

49.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

50.

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