Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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.

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

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

Hope, Bob

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

10.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

11.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

12.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

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

Dressler, Marie

15.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

19.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

21.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

22.

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

23.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

24.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

Meyers, Ernest

29.

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

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Hoagland, Edward

31.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Carter, Lillian

33.

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

Swift, Jonathan

34.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Lerner, Max

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Kanin, Garson

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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Billings, Josh