Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Christie, Agatha

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

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.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

11.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

12.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

14.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

15.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

16.

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

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

19.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

Dressler, Marie

21.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

22.

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

Beckett, Samuel

23.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

25.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

26.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

27.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

28.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

29.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

30.

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

Mittleman, Stu

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

34.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

36.

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

37.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

38.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

39.

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

Bunuel, Luis

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

43.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

44.

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

Young, Edward

45.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

48.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

49.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

50.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De