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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. ~ Benjamin Disraeli – Coningsby
Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. ~ Martin H. Fischer
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~ Timothy Leary
You’re never too old. Unfortunately, you’re always too young to know it. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~ Dutch Proverb
You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother. That’s the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~ Lillian Gish
You know you’ve reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~ Author Unknown
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. ~ Arnold Palmer
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven’s sake. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~ Bonnie Prudden
You can’t hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life. ~ Author Unknown
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. ~ George Burns
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. ~ Allen
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~ Douglas MacArthur
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~ Franklin Adams
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~ Mark Twain – Following the Equator
Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up. ~ Author Unknown
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck. ~ Peggy Toney Horton
When you’re a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you’re older, it’s a straight part. ~ Laurence Olivier
When the straight, eager forms that we knew in youth
Become bent with age, we rebel at the truth
That never, again, will they be young and strong;
For old age—so ruthless!—has now come along. ~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham – “We Do Not Grow Old” (1940s)
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~ Hugo L. Black
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth. ~ Sara Teasdale
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~ Victor Hugo
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~ John Fischer
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~ Voltaire
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~ Frank A. Clark
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we’re the grown-ups. ~ Margaret Atwood
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ~ Charles Lamb
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. ~ Author Unknown
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~ Marty Bucella
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~ Author Unknown
We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~ Bob Bowen
We are always the same age inside. ~ Gertrude Stein
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. ~ Author unknown – commonly misattributed to Williston Fish
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 Amiel
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ~ Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes – (Thanks Janice!)
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~ Caryn Leschen
They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I’m in a depression. ~ Rick Majerus
There’s no such thing as too late. That’s why they invented death. ~ From the movie Out to Sea
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age — I missed it coming and going. ~ J.B. Priestly
There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important. ~ Franklin P. Adams
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~ John Mortimer
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. ~ Carol Grace
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I’m sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt. ~ Author Unknown
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age…. I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade. ~ Alexander Smith – “An Essay on an Old Subject”
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. ~ Alexander Smith – “An Essay on an Old Subject”
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~ T.S. Eliot – quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~ Mortimer Collins
The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~ Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. ~ Edmund Waller
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ~ Marya Mannes – More in Anger, 1958
The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives. ~ Terri Guillemets
The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer. ~ Joan Collins
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older. ~ Li Po
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why,” I answered without a thought, “now.” ~ David Grayson
The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it’s always in your face. ~ Jack Nicklaus
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~ H.L. Mencken
The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~ Richard Jefferies – The Life of the Fields, 1908
The last birthday that’s any good is 23. ~ Andy Rooney
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~ Judith Regan
The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~ Ashley Montagu
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~ Doris Lessing
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~ Mark Twain
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The elderly don’t drive that badly; they’re just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. ~ Jason Love
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing…. So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend’s wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid. ~ Alexander Smith – “An Essay on an Old Subject”
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault. blogspot.com
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want. ~ L.S. McCandless
The arctic loneliness of age. ~ S. Weir Mitchell
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~ Leon Edel
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~ Doug Larson
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by-and-by black night doth take away… ~ William Shakespeare
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. ~ Wilma Rudolph
Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. ~ Ravensara Noite
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~ Martin Buxbaum
So, as the season was autumnal and the trees were turning brown, I chose a strictly appropriate sentence to be commented upon, “We all do fade as a leaf.” It was to be a serious, reflective, almost sentimental discourse, upon the approach of age, the mellowness and beauty of the ripening fruit of experience, the kindly wisdom which was to make up for the cruder joys of youth… ~ Adeline Sergeant – The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr. Stephen Dart, Late Minister at Lynnbridge in the County of Lincoln, 1892
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. ~ Author Unknown
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~ Charles Dickens
Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~ T.A. Sachs – in answer to William Habington “Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?”
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless. ~ Liz Smith
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~ Quoted by Francis Bacon – Apothegm
Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave. ~ Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~ Charles Dickens
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. ~ Michel de Montaigne
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. ~ Maurice Chevalier – New York Times, 9 October 1960
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. ~ Leon Trotsky – (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ~ Ronald Blythe
Old age ain’t no place for sissies. ~ Bette Davis
Oh! weep not that our beauty wears
Beneath the wings of Time;
That age o’erclouds the brow with cares
That once was raised sublime…
But mourn the inward wreck we feel
As hoary years depart,
And Time’s effacing fingers steal
Young feelings from the heart! ~ Robert Montgomery – “Lost Feelings,” March 1828
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~ Samuel Ullman
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face…. ~ John Donne – “Elegy IX: The Autumnal”
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~ Margaret Willour
My younger passions are still listening, as I age. ~ Terri Guillemets
My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories. ~ Terri Guillemets
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. ~ Samuel Johnson
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~ Graham Greene
Middle age: The time when you’ll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. ~ Robert Quillen
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~ Daniel Defoe
Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you. ~ Bennett Cerf
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~ Author Unknown
Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not. ~ Author Unknown
Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. ~ Author Unknown
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~ Don Marquis
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ~ Harold Coffin
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. ~ Donald Justice – “Men at Forty”
May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age. ~ Minna Thomas Antrim – “To Harder Times,” A Book of Toasts, 1902
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~ Robert Southey – The Doctor
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~ Edward Young – Night Thoughts
Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. ~ Billy Casper – about golf’s Senior Tour
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~ Mark Twain
Life is one long process of getting tired. ~ Samuel Butler – Notebooks
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. ~ Author Unknown
It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~ Brigitte Bardot
It’s like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~ Author Unknown
It’s hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers’ Game. ~ Vin Scully
It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. ~ Seigneur de Saint-Evremond – 1696
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. ~ Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
It takes a long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~ George Dennison Prentice – Prenticeana, 1860
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – “Autumn Within”
Is that a birthday? ’tis, alas! too clear;
‘Tis but the funeral of the former year. ~ Alexander Pope
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~ Nikita Ivanovich Panin
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. ~ Douglas MacArthur
In dog years, I’m dead. ~ Author Unknown
In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. ~ E.B. White
In a dream you are never eighty. ~ Anne Sexton
I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience. ~ Author Unknown
If youth but know,
And old age only could. ~ Henri Estienne
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s. ~ Eddie Murphy
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth’s gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~ Dave Barry
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. ~ Bernard Berenson
I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. ~ Robert Frost
I look back on the time I’ve wasted, and I’m just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. ~ William Allen White
I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. ~ Phyllis Diller
I don’t do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast. ~ Author Unknown
I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ~ T.S. Eliot
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. ~ Sheila Kaye-Smith
I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young. ~ Bruce Ades – c.1990
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~ Edward Grey
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
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
I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can “age without aging.” The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm. ~ Craig D. Slovak
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? ~ Satchel Paige
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. ~ William Butler Yeats
Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ~ Andre Maurois
Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~ G. Norman Collie
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ~ Saint Aurelius Augustine
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~ Victor Hugo
Few people know how to be old. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~ Charles Dickens
Ev’ry season hath its pleasures:
Spring may boast her flow’ry prime,
Yet the vineyard’s ruby treasures
Brighten autumn’s sob’rer time.
So life’s year begins and closes;
Days, though short’ning, still can shine;
What, though youth gave loves and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine….
Thus may we, as years are flying,
To their flight our pleasures suit,
Nor regret the blossoms dying,
While we still can taste the fruit. ~ Thomas Moore – “Spring and Autumn”
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. ~ Attributed to John Wagner
Everyone is the age of their heart. ~ Guatemalan Proverb
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ Jonathan Swift – Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
Don’t worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up. ~ Attributed to John Wagner
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~ Terri Guillemets
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~ Author Unknown
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~ Author Unknown
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~ Chinese Proverb
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children’s children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful. ~ J.A. Froude
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. ~ Muriel Spark
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? ~ Jules Feiffer
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
At another year
I would not boggle
Except that when I jog
I joggle. ~ Ogden Nash – “Birthday on the Beach”
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ~ Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard’s Almanac
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~ Erma Bombeck
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~ Henry Ford
And now,
Though haply mellow’d by correcting time,
I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world
Hath not diminish’d the subliming hopes
Of youth, in manhood’s more imposing cares… ~ Robert Montgomery
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow. ~ Alexander Smith – “An Essay on an Old Subject”
An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ~ Agatha Christie – news summaries, 9 March 1954
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress. ~ William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
All diseases run into one, old age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age swallows our childhood. ~ Terri Guillemets
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. ~ Jean Rhys
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Morituri Salutamus
Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. ~ Carrie Latet
Age is just a number. Mine is unlisted. ~ Author Unknown
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ~ Leroy “Satchel” Paige
Age is a prison from which we cannot escape
but only by death,
into another world. ~ Morrow Bourne
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~ Jim Fiebig
Age attacks when we least expect it. ~ Terri Guillemets
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~ Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~ Jean Rostand
A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks. ~ Mortimer Collins
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[T]here is this value about the colour that men call colourless; that it suggests in some way the mixed and troubled averages of existence, especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour; of brightening into blue or blanching into white or bursting into green and gold. So we may be perpetually reminded of the indefinite hope that is in doubt itself; and when there is grey weather in our hills or grey hairs in our heads, perhaps they may still remind us of the morning. ~ G.K. Chesterton – Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
[H]e drew towards his premature old age, childless and lonely,—like the needle which, approaching within a certain distance of the pole, becomes helpless and useless, and, ceasing to tremble, rusts. ~ Lord Byron – about Alexander Pope
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[D]on’t grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice…. Whatever else you do in life, don’t cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree – as quoted by Hesketh Pearson (“Sir Herbert Tree,” Modern Men and Mummers)