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

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 mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Brown, Les

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

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

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

11.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

12.

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

Dressler, Marie

13.

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

14.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

Christie, Agatha

17.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

18.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Day, Doris

20.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

23.

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

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

29.

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

Young, Edward

30.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

34.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

38.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

40.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

41.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Rahel

44.

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

45.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

46.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

47.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

48.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

49.

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

Gabriel, Peter

50.

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.