Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hoagland, Edward

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Ullman, Samuel

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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.

10.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

11.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

13.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

14.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

15.

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

16.

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

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

18.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

21.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

22.

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

Burns, George

23.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

24.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

25.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

26.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

28.

O'Casey, Sean

29.

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

Burke, Billie

30.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

31.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

32.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, 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.

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

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Astaire, Fred

37.

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

Turner, Tina

38.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

41.

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

Meyers, Ernest

42.

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

43.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Cato The Elder

45.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

46.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

48.

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

49.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward