Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

- Nuveen, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

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

Burke, Billie

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

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

Carter, Lillian

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

10.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

11.

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

Greier, John

12.

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

Cass, Eli

13.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Hope, Bob

15.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

16.

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.

17.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

20.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

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

Hope, Bob

22.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

23.

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

Ullman, Samuel

24.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

32.

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

33.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

37.

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

Burke, Billie

38.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

39.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

40.

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

Vaughan, Henry

41.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

42.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

43.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

45.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

46.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

48.

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

Richards, Keith

49.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

50.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck