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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Burroughs, John

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

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Johnson

11.

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

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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

13.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

16.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

19.

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

Ullman, Samuel

20.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

21.

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

Browning, Robert

22.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

25.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Burke, Billie

28.

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.

29.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

30.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

31.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

Thurber, James

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

Nuveen, John

43.

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

44.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

46.

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

Trotsky, Leon

47.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Astaire, Fred

49.

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

50.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir