Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Schulz, Charles M.

10.

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

11.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

Jung, Carl

13.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

14.

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

15.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

17.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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

Wharton, Edith

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

Kanin, Garson

22.

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

23.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

24.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

25.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

28.

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

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

32.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

Burke, Billie

34.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

35.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

38.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

40.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

45.

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

Burroughs, John

46.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

47.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

49.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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