Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

13.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

16.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

19.

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

20.

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

Woolf, Virginia

21.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

23.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

25.

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

Lerner, Max

26.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

29.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

30.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

31.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

32.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

33.

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

Brookner, Anita

34.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

35.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

39.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

40.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Greier, John

44.

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.

45.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

46.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

47.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

48.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.