Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Carter, Lillian

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Tholuck

13.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

14.

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

Becker, May L.

15.

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

16.

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

Browning, Robert

17.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

18.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

19.

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.

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

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.

25.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

28.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

29.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

31.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Wharton, Edith

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

35.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

37.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

38.

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

Nuveen, John

39.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

40.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

41.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

42.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

43.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

44.

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

45.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

46.

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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

49.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.