Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

- Tusser, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

13.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

14.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

15.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

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

Turner, Tina

17.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

18.

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

19.

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

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

21.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

24.

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

25.

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

Young, Edward

26.

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

Cope, Wendy

27.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

28.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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

30.

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

31.

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

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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

33.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

34.

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

Proverb, Irish

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

39.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

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

41.

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

Burke, Billie

42.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

45.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

46.

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

Collins, Mortimer

47.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

48.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.