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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

13.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

14.

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

Rahel

15.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

16.

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

Hope, Bob

17.

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

Richards, Keith

18.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

21.

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

Updike, John

22.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

23.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

28.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

29.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

33.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

34.

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

35.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

36.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

38.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

39.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

41.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

43.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

44.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Burke, Billie

48.

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

49.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

50.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena