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

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.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rahel

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

10.

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

Burns, George

11.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

12.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

15.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Tholuck

17.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

18.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

20.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

22.

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.

23.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

24.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

26.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

28.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

29.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

30.

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

31.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

36.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

37.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

40.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

42.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

46.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

47.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

49.

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

Becker, May L.

50.

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