Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Becker, May L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kanin, Garson

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

11.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

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

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

16.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

17.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

20.

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

21.

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

Young, Edward

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.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

24.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

25.

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

26.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

27.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

28.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

Nuveen, John

33.

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

34.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

36.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

37.

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

38.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

40.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

42.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

48.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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.

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