Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

10.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

11.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

13.

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

Powell, Anthony

14.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

16.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

21.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

22.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

24.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

25.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

29.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

30.

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

Johnson

31.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

32.

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

33.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

Paul, Jean

35.

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

Young, Edward

36.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

37.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

38.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

39.

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

Cass, Eli

40.

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

Brookner, Anita

41.

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

Updike, John

42.

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

Meir, Golda

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

46.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

47.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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.

49.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark