Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age considers; youth ventures.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Kanin, Garson

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

10.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

12.

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

13.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

21.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

22.

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

Hope, Bob

23.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

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

26.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

29.

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

30.

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

Updike, John

31.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

32.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

33.

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

Greier, John

34.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

35.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

36.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

37.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

38.

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

39.

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

Trotsky, Leon

40.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

43.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

45.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

Astaire, Fred

47.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

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

49.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

50.

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