Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

11.

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

Bible

12.

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.

13.

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.

14.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

15.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

16.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

21.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

22.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

23.

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

24.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

25.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

26.

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.

27.

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

Child, Lydia M.

28.

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

Burroughs, John

29.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

30.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

32.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

33.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

34.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

37.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

38.

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

39.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

40.

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

41.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

50.

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