Aging Quotes

Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

William Shakespeare

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

August Strindberg

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

Frances Pollock

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

Bible

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas A. Edison

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

T.S Eliot

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul Richter

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?

W. A. C. Bennett

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

On the day of his death in his eightieth year Elliot 'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because ' replied the venerable man 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere and he has heard my prayers for now that I can no longer preach he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.'

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

John Knox

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Anonymous

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

Clarence Randall

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

George Bernard Shaw

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves

May Lamberton Becker

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

Goethe

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Plato

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An old codger rampant and still learning.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

George Santayana

The arctic loneliness of age.

S. Weir Mitchell

When pain ends gain ends too.

Robert Browning

No gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

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 people don't have that privilege.'

When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

George Santayana

Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.

Bible

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Cicero

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

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

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