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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Hoagland, Edward

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

11.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

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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.

25.

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

Bunuel, Luis

26.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

28.

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

Lehrer, Tom

29.

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

Jung, Carl

30.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

32.

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

33.

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

Burke, Billie

34.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

36.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

38.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

41.

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

Carey, Joyce

42.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

43.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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.

46.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

47.

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

Hope, Bob

48.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

49.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren