Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Desmoulins, Camille

10.

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

11.

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

Ullman, Samuel

12.

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

13.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

19.

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

20.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

24.

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

Meir, Golda

25.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

31.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

32.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

34.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

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

Brookner, Anita

36.

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

Palmer, R.

37.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

38.

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

Greier, John

39.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

40.

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

41.

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

Vaughan, Henry

42.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

45.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

46.

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

Turner, Tina

47.

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

48.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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

50.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert