Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Jung, Carl

10.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

11.

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

Ullman, Samuel

12.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

13.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

14.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

17.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

18.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Greier, John

20.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

21.

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

Mittleman, Stu

22.

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

Trotsky, Leon

23.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

24.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

25.

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

26.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

28.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

29.

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

30.

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

Hope, Bob

31.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

36.

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

37.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Beckett, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

Astaire, Fred

44.

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

Marx, Groucho

45.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

50.

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

Proverb, Irish