Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Yeats, William Butler

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Bible

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

11.

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.

12.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

13.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

14.

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

Becker, May L.

15.

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

16.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

17.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

20.

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

Young, Edward

21.

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

Richards, Keith

22.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

24.

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

25.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

26.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

31.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

34.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

36.

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

Burke, Billie

37.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

39.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

44.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

48.

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

49.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

50.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire