Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Bible

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

10.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

Ullman, Samuel

12.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

13.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

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

15.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

17.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

19.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

24.

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

Christie, Agatha

25.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

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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

28.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

31.

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

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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

33.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

39.

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

40.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

41.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

42.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

44.

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

45.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

47.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

48.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

49.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

50.

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

Becker, May L.