Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

11.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

12.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

13.

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)

14.

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

15.

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

Mittleman, Stu

16.

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.

17.

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.

18.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

19.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

21.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

22.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

23.

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

24.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

25.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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.

28.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

29.

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

30.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

31.

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

32.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

33.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

35.

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

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

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

Ullman, Samuel

39.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

40.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

41.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

42.

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

Yeats, William Butler

43.

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

44.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

49.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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