Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Hope, Bob

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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.

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

10.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

12.

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

13.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

14.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

16.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

17.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

18.

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

Chopra, Deepak

19.

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

Carter, Lillian

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

23.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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

25.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

Brown, Captain J.

29.

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

30.

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

Swift, Jonathan

31.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

36.

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

Fonda, Jane

37.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

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.

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

41.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

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

Cope, Wendy

43.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

44.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

47.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.