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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

11.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

12.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

15.

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

Meir, Golda

16.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

17.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

22.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

Hope, Bob

27.

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

28.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

31.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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

Updike, John

33.

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

34.

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

Cass, Eli

35.

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.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

38.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

41.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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.

44.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

45.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

49.

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

50.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler