Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Billings, Josh

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

Becker, May L.

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

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

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

Arden, Elizabeth

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

14.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

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

16.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

17.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

18.

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

19.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

20.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

21.

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

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

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

25.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

26.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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

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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

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

31.

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.

32.

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

Vaughan, Henry

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Chopra, Deepak

36.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

38.

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

39.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

40.

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

Ullman, Samuel

41.

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

42.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

44.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

45.

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

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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

47.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

49.

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

Updike, John

50.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.