Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Jung, Carl

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

13.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

14.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

15.

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

Powell, Anthony

16.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

24.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

25.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

28.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

29.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

30.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

31.

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

Hope, Bob

32.

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

33.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

35.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

39.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

40.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

42.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

43.

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

Wharton, Edith

44.

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

Fonda, Jane

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