Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Chopra, Deepak

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Gabriel, Peter

10.

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

Astaire, Fred

11.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

12.

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

13.

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

14.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

15.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

16.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

17.

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

18.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

22.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

Nuveen, John

31.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

32.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

35.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

38.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

39.

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

Mittleman, Stu

40.

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

Fonda, Jane

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

46.

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