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

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Proverb

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

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

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

10.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

11.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

12.

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

Ullman, Samuel

13.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

14.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

15.

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

16.

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

Mittleman, Stu

17.

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

Fonda, Jane

18.

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

Hope, Bob

19.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Greier, John

23.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

25.

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

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

29.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

30.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

Tholuck

33.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

34.

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

35.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

36.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

37.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

39.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

40.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

41.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

42.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

43.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

47.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

48.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

49.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

50.

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