Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ali, Muhammad

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

10.

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

11.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

15.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

17.

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

Gabriel, Peter

18.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

21.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Meir, Golda

27.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

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

Palmer, Arnold

30.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

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.

32.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

33.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

34.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

35.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

36.

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

Lerner, Max

37.

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

38.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

39.

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

40.

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

Philo

41.

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

42.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

43.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

44.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

47.

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

48.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

49.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

50.

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