Age and Aging Quotes
206 quotations about Age and Aging
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Age considers; youth ventures.
No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Authors on Age and Aging
Amos Bronson Alcott
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May L. Becker
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Bible
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