Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

10.

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

Kanin, Garson

11.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

12.

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

Fonda, Jane

13.

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

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

16.

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

17.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

19.

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

Ali, Muhammad

20.

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

21.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

22.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

23.

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.

24.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

27.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

34.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

35.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

36.

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

37.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

42.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

46.

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.

47.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

48.

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

Rahel

49.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.