Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Nuveen, John

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

Johnson

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Tholuck

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Lerner, Max

10.

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

11.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Lehrer, Tom

13.

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

Rahel

14.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

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

17.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

21.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

22.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

25.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

26.

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

Hawn, Goldie

27.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

28.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

29.

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

30.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

37.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

38.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

40.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

41.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Burke, Billie

43.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

45.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

46.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

47.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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.

49.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

50.

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