Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Robert

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

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.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

15.

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

Astaire, Fred

16.

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

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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.

18.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

21.

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.

22.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

26.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Carter, Lillian

30.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

31.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

32.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

33.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

34.

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

35.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

36.

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

Palmer, Arnold

37.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

38.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

39.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

40.

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

41.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Meir, Golda

43.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Fonda, Jane

45.

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

46.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

47.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

48.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

49.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von