Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

Lerner, Max

11.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

14.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

15.

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

16.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

17.

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

18.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

21.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

23.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

28.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

29.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

31.

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

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

34.

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

35.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

36.

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.

37.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

38.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

39.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

40.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

41.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

42.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

43.

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

Philo

44.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

45.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

46.

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

Ullman, Samuel

47.

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)

48.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.