Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Mittleman, Stu

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

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

11.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

16.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

17.

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

Rahel

18.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

20.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

25.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

26.

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

27.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Woolf, Virginia

29.

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

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Vaughan, Henry

32.

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

33.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

34.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

37.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

38.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

39.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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.

48.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

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

50.

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

Schulz, Charles M.