Motivational Quotes

Age

People age even when you're not looking.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Age

1.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

2.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

3.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

4.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

5.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

6.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

7.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

9.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

11.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

12.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

13.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

14.

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

17.

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

18.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

19.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

20.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

21.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

22.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

23.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

26.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

27.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

28.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

29.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

30.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

31.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

32.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

33.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

34.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

35.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

36.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

37.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

38.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

39.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

41.

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

Karl von Bonstetten

42.

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

43.

Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

44.

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

45.

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

47.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

48.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

49.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

50.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren