Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

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.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

14.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

15.

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

16.

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

Christie, Agatha

17.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

18.

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

19.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

20.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

21.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Astaire, Fred

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

26.

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

Palmer, R.

27.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

28.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

29.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Carey, Joyce

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

34.

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

35.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

37.

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

38.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

39.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Powell, Anthony

45.

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

Day, Doris

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

48.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

49.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

50.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda