Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

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

Updike, John

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

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

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

11.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

12.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

14.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

15.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

18.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

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

Mittleman, Stu

25.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

26.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

27.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

29.

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

30.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

31.

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

Young, Edward

32.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

34.

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

35.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

36.

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

37.

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

Jung, Carl

38.

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

39.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

40.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

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

48.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

49.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

50.

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.