Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

- Hardy, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Cope, Wendy

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Thurber, James

17.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

18.

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

Christie, Agatha

19.

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

20.

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

Burke, Billie

21.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

25.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

28.

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

29.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

31.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

32.

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

33.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

34.

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

35.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

36.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

37.

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

38.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

39.

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.

40.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

41.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

42.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

43.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

50.

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

Billings, Josh