Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Wharton, Edith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Day, Doris

10.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

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

Christie, Agatha

16.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

17.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

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

21.

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

Rahel

22.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

23.

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

Kanin, Garson

24.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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

30.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

31.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

32.

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

33.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

35.

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

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

Cato The Elder

37.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

38.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

40.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

44.

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

45.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

46.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

49.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler