Motivational Quotes

Age

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

- Karl von Bonstetten

Best Quotes about Age

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the'Dilbert guy.'Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be'that stabbin'Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

10.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

11.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

12.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

13.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

14.

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

15.

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

16.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

17.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

18.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

19.

Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

20.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

21.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

22.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

23.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

24.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

25.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

26.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

27.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

28.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

29.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

30.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

31.

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

33.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

34.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

35.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

36.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

37.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

38.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

39.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

40.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

41.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

42.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

43.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

44.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.