Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Hope, Bob

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

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.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

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.

14.

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

Meyers, Ernest

15.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

16.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

17.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

18.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

19.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

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

21.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

22.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

23.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Yeats, William Butler

27.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

29.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

33.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

38.

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

39.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

40.

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

Carter, Lillian

41.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

44.

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

45.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

48.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

49.

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

50.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.