Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Hawn, Goldie

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

10.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

11.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Christie, Agatha

16.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

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

18.

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

Gabriel, Peter

19.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

20.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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.

24.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

25.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

26.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

35.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

36.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

37.

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

38.

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

40.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

43.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

44.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

45.

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

Carter, Lillian

46.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

47.

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

Meir, Golda

48.

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

49.

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

Brown, Les

50.

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.