Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Palmer, R.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

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

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Cass, Eli

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

15.

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

Meyers, Ernest

16.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

19.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

20.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

21.

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

Collins, Mortimer

22.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

23.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Carey, Joyce

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

28.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

31.

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

32.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

33.

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.

34.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

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

37.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

41.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

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

46.

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

Rahel

47.

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

Chopra, Deepak

48.

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

Gabriel, Peter

49.

How can I die? I'm booked.