Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Trotsky, Leon

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nuveen, John

15.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

22.

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

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Burke, Billie

26.

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

Carter, Lillian

27.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

28.

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

29.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

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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

35.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

39.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

40.

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

41.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

42.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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.

44.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

49.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Johnson