Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Palmer, Arnold

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Bible

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Paul, Jean

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

10.

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

Chopra, Deepak

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

13.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

16.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

17.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

19.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

20.

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

21.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

22.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

23.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

26.

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

Cato The Elder

27.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

28.

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

Nuveen, John

29.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Ali, Muhammad

32.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

37.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

41.

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

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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

44.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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.

47.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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.