Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Burke, Billie

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

10.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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.

12.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

13.

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

Burke, Billie

14.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

15.

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

16.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

17.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Burke, Billie

19.

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

Nuveen, John

20.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

22.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

23.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

24.

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

25.

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

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

27.

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

28.

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

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

33.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

34.

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

Meyers, Ernest

35.

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

36.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

37.

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

38.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

39.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

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

41.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

43.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

44.

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

Carter, Lillian

45.

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

46.

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

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

48.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

49.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

50.

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

Astaire, Fred