Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Ullman, Samuel

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

10.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

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

15.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

16.

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

17.

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

Cope, Wendy

18.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Meyers, Ernest

20.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

21.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

22.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

23.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

25.

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

Collins, Mortimer

26.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

27.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

30.

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

31.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

32.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

33.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

38.

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

39.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

42.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

48.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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