Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Nuveen, John

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

10.

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

11.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Burke, Billie

14.

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

15.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

18.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

19.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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.

21.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

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

Carter, Lillian

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Gabriel, Peter

30.

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

31.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

Wordsworth, William

33.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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.

36.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

37.

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

Christie, Agatha

38.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

39.

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.

40.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

41.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

43.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

44.

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

Hope, Bob

45.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

46.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

Hawn, Goldie

48.

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

Palmer, Arnold

49.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

50.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.