Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Nuveen, John

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

Hope, Bob

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

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

14.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

15.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

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

21.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

22.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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

Tholuck

31.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

35.

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

Christie, Agatha

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

42.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

43.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

44.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

45.

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

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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.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

48.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

49.

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

50.

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