Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Mortimer, John

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Christie, Agatha

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

10.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

11.

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

Trotsky, Leon

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

14.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

16.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

17.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

18.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

19.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

24.

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

25.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Bible

31.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

32.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

33.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

38.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

39.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

40.

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

Paul, Jean

41.

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

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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.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Meir, Golda

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

49.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

50.

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

Beckett, Samuel