Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Bible

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

10.

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.

11.

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

Meir, Golda

12.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

15.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

16.

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

Marx, Groucho

17.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

18.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

19.

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

20.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

24.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

25.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

26.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

27.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

28.

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

29.

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

Cope, Wendy

30.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

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

Chopra, Deepak

32.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

33.

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

Fonda, Jane

34.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

35.

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.

36.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

37.

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

Ullman, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

41.

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

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

45.

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

46.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

48.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

49.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

50.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin