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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

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

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rahel

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

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

15.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

16.

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

17.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

18.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

19.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

20.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

22.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

23.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

24.

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

25.

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

Christie, Agatha

26.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

28.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Christie, Agatha

34.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

35.

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

36.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

37.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

40.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

43.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

49.

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

50.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander