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

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Hope, Bob

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

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

10.

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

11.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

12.

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

Brown, Captain J.

13.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

15.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

16.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

18.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

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

Ullman, Samuel

23.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

24.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

25.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

26.

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

Gabriel, Peter

27.

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

Chopra, Deepak

28.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

33.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

37.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

38.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

39.

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

40.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

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.

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

Jung, Carl

44.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

48.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

49.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.