Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

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)

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

10.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

12.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

13.

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

Tholuck

14.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

15.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

16.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

17.

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

Day, Doris

18.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

22.

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

23.

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

Beckett, Samuel

24.

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

25.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

26.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

27.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

29.

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

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

33.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Becker, May L.

36.

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.

37.

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

Christie, Agatha

38.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

39.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

42.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

Collins, Mortimer

44.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

45.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

46.

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

47.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

48.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

49.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

50.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von