Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

14.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

15.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

17.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

18.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

20.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

23.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

24.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

25.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

29.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

34.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

35.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Beckett, Samuel

37.

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

Cope, Wendy

38.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

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

40.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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.

43.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

47.

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

Rahel

48.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.