Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

- Selznick, Irene Mayer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Bible

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Astaire, Fred

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

10.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

11.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

13.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

17.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

21.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

24.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

25.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

Collins, Mortimer

28.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

29.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

30.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

32.

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

33.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

35.

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

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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

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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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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

40.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

41.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

45.

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

Cope, Wendy

46.

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

Tholuck

47.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

48.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

50.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily