Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Palmer, R.

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

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Hope, Bob

12.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

13.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

14.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

15.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

17.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Hope, Bob

19.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

20.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

21.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

24.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

25.

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

26.

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

27.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

28.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

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

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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

33.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

34.

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

Meir, Golda

35.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

36.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

37.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

38.

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

Christie, Agatha

39.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

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

41.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

42.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

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.

44.

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

Woolf, Virginia

45.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

46.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

47.

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

Burke, Billie

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin