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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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.

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

17.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

18.

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

19.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

20.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

21.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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

Meyers, Ernest

24.

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.

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

28.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

29.

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

30.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

32.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

33.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Kuhn, Maggie

38.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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.

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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.

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

Proverb

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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

43.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

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

46.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

48.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

49.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie