Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Pepper, Claude D.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

10.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

13.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

14.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

15.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

16.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

17.

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

Meyers, Ernest

18.

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

19.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

20.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

21.

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.

22.

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

Yeats, William Butler

23.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

24.

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

Lehrer, Tom

25.

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

26.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

27.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

28.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

30.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

33.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

34.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Day, Doris

37.

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

Wharton, Edith

38.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

39.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

40.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

42.

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

43.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

44.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

45.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

46.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Ali, Muhammad

48.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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