Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Hope, Bob

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

10.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

11.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

12.

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

Vaughan, Henry

13.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

14.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

15.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

17.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

18.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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.

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

21.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Brown, Captain J.

23.

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.

24.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

25.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

26.

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

Child, Lydia M.

27.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

28.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

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

Burke, Billie

33.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

35.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

36.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

44.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

45.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

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)

47.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

48.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

50.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.