Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Cato The Elder

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

10.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Lehrer, Tom

12.

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

13.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

14.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

15.

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

Beckett, Samuel

16.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

17.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

18.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

19.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

26.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

27.

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

Christie, Agatha

28.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

29.

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

30.

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

Updike, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

38.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

39.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

41.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

43.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

44.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

45.

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