Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Palmer, R.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Burns, George

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

10.

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

Kanin, Garson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Jung, Carl

19.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

21.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

22.

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

23.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

24.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Lehrer, Tom

26.

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

27.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

28.

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

Hope, Bob

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

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

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

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

Collins, Mortimer

36.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

39.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

40.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

47.

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

Nuveen, John

48.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

50.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord