Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Turner, Tina

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hawn, Goldie

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

11.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

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

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

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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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

20.

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

21.

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

Gabriel, Peter

22.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

24.

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

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

27.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

30.

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

Bible

31.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

32.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

35.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

37.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

Lehrer, Tom

40.

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

41.

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

Lerner, Max

42.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

45.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

46.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

47.

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

Billings, Josh

48.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

49.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

50.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William