Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Tholuck

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hope, Bob

10.

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

Hawn, Goldie

11.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

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

15.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

16.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

17.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Swift, Jonathan

19.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

22.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

23.

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.

24.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

25.

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

26.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

27.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

28.

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

Lehrer, Tom

29.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

30.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

31.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

32.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

33.

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

Burroughs, John

34.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

35.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

41.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Rahel

45.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

46.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

50.

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