Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

10.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Chopra, Deepak

12.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

13.

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

Christie, Agatha

14.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

15.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

18.

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.

19.

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

Lehrer, Tom

20.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

21.

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

22.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

25.

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

26.

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

Rahel

27.

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

Christie, Agatha

28.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

29.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

33.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

34.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

35.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

36.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

41.

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

Turner, Tina

42.

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

43.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

45.

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

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

48.

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

49.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

50.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce