Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

12.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

13.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

14.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

15.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

16.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

18.

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

Bible

19.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

20.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

23.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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.

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

Hoagland, Edward

27.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

31.

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

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

33.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

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

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

37.

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

38.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

39.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

40.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

41.

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

42.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

43.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

44.

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

Yeats, William Butler

45.

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

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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.

47.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.