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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

10.

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

11.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

12.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

13.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

14.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

16.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

17.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Wharton, Edith

19.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

21.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

23.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

24.

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

25.

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

Hope, Bob

26.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

27.

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

Tholuck

28.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

29.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

30.

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

31.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

32.

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

Hawn, Goldie

33.

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

34.

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

Edwards, Tryon

35.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

36.

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

Dressler, Marie

37.

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

38.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

41.

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

42.

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

Carter, Lillian

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

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

45.

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

Day, Doris

46.

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

47.

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

Thurber, James

48.

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

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset