Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

10.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

11.

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

Browning, Robert

12.

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

Lehrer, Tom

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

15.

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

Hawn, Goldie

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

18.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

20.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

21.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

23.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

27.

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

Young, Edward

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

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

Cass, Eli

32.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

36.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

37.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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.

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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

40.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

45.

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

Mittleman, Stu

46.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

47.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

49.

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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom