Aging Quotes - Page 2

Few people know how to be old.

La Rochefoucauld

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Anonymous

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Simone de Beauvoir

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Igor Stravinsky

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

T.S Eliot

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

William Feather

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

But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."

Robert Browning

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 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 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

Konrad Adenauer

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Lady Astor

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

James Hubert Blake

If the young only knew if the old only could.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

William Shakespeare

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

T.S Eliot

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

Jacques Bainville

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

Anonymous

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All would live long but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

An old man loved is Winter with flowers.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.

In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

Edward John Trelawny

I'm falling into disrepair

She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

Faina Ranevskaya

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life.

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, "the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king.

It happens to everyone and it happens fast.

Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

J. Matthew Nespoli

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