Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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.

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

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

13.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

15.

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

Chopra, Deepak

16.

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

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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

18.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

21.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

23.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

25.

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

Kanin, Garson

26.

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

27.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

28.

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.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Defoe, Daniel

31.

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

Carter, Lillian

32.

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

33.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

34.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

Meyers, Ernest

36.

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

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

41.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

43.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

44.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

45.

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

Beckett, Samuel

46.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

48.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.