Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

- Perry, Ralph B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Cope, Wendy

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

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

Nuveen, John

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

Bleasdale, Alan

10.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

11.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

12.

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

13.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

14.

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

15.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

20.

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

21.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

22.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

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

Bunuel, Luis

24.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

25.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

26.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

29.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

31.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

32.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

34.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

35.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

36.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

37.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

38.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

39.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

40.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

42.

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

43.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

45.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

46.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

47.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

48.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

49.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

50.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith