Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Yeats, William Butler

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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

12.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

14.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

20.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

21.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

22.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

23.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Cope, Wendy

27.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

28.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Vaughan, Henry

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Philo

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

37.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

38.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

40.

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

Burroughs, John

41.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

46.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

49.

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

50.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston