Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

10.

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

Meyers, Ernest

11.

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

12.

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

Stael, Germaine De

13.

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

14.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

15.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

19.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

20.

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

Mittleman, Stu

21.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

22.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

23.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

24.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

31.

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

32.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

34.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Burns, George

42.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

43.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

44.

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

45.

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)

46.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

49.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von