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

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

Cass, Eli

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Tholuck

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Thurber, James

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

10.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

Updike, John

12.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

13.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

14.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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.

16.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

20.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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.

22.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

23.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Proverb

26.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

33.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

36.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

37.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

38.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

43.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

44.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

45.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

46.

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

47.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

49.

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

50.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George