Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

10.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

11.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

12.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

13.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

15.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

16.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

17.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

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

Fonda, Jane

19.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Brookner, Anita

21.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

22.

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

Vaughan, Henry

23.

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

Updike, John

24.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

25.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

26.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

27.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

29.

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

30.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

31.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Lehrer, Tom

34.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

35.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

36.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

37.

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.

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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

39.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

40.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

41.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

42.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

45.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

46.

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

47.

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

Hope, Bob

48.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

49.

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

50.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham