Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

- Lin Yu-tang

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

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

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fonda, Jane

10.

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

Powell, Anthony

11.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

12.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

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

Hoagland, Edward

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Child, Lydia M.

17.

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

18.

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

Gabriel, Peter

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

22.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

23.

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

24.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

25.

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

26.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

27.

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.

28.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

29.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

30.

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

Burns, George

31.

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

32.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

33.

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

Astaire, Fred

34.

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

Vaughan, Henry

35.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

36.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

37.

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

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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

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

Burns, George

40.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

41.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

42.

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

43.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

44.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

45.

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

46.

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

Mortimer, John

47.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

48.

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

Woolf, Virginia

49.

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