Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Young, Edward

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

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

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

Philo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

15.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

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

17.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

18.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

20.

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

21.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

22.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

24.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

27.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

28.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

29.

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

Carter, Lillian

30.

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.

31.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

32.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

34.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

39.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

41.

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

Burke, Billie

42.

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

Bunuel, Luis

43.

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.

44.

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

Updike, John

45.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

46.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

47.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

48.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

49.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

50.

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.