Famous Quotes about Age and Aging (402 Quotations)

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside –from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Talking is the disease of age.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.