Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Updike, John

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

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

Kanin, Garson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

10.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

11.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

12.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

13.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

17.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

18.

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

19.

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

20.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Bible

23.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

24.

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

25.

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

Beckett, Samuel

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

28.

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

29.

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

30.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

31.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

32.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

33.

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

34.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

38.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Astaire, Fred

40.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

43.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

44.

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

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

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

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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.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

49.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

50.

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