Age and Aging Quotes
206 quotations about Age and Aging
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Few people know how to be old.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Being seventy is not a sin.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Authors on Age and Aging
Amos Bronson Alcott
Muhammad Ali
Elizabeth Arden
Fred Astaire
Lady Nancy Astor
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
Francis Bacon
Lucille Ball
Amelia E. Barr
Bernard M. Baruch
May L. Becker
Samuel Beckett
Ingmar Bergman
Bible
Josh Billings
Alan Bleasdale
Anita Brookner
Captain J. Brown
Les Brown
Rita Mae Brown