Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

Arden, Elizabeth

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Young, Edward

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Bunuel, Luis

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

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

14.

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

Hope, Bob

15.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

16.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

17.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

18.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

19.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

22.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

25.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

26.

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

27.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

29.

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.

30.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

32.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

34.

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

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

37.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

38.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

39.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

40.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

41.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

43.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

44.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

45.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

46.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Child, Lydia M.

48.

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

49.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

50.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel