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 should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Carter, Lillian

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Burroughs, John

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

Bible

10.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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

Lehrer, Tom

13.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

14.

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

15.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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.

17.

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.

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

20.

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

Chopra, Deepak

21.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

23.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

24.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

25.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

26.

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

27.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

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

33.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

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

35.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

36.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

37.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

38.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

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

Ullman, Samuel

40.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

41.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

42.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

43.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

44.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

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

46.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

47.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Hope, Bob

50.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb