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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Child, Lydia M.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

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

Jung, Carl

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

10.

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

Burroughs, John

11.

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

12.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

15.

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

Yeats, William Butler

16.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

18.

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

Vaughan, Henry

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

21.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

26.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

28.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

29.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

30.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

31.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

32.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

35.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

36.

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

37.

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

Meyers, Ernest

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

40.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

41.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

45.

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.

46.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

47.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

48.

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

Brookner, Anita

49.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

50.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic