Quotes about age and aging

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

Addison, Joseph on age and aging
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Aimee, Anouk on age and aging
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on age and aging
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

Allen, Hervey on age and aging
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"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."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on age and aging
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"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."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

Astaire, Fred on age and aging
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"I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate."

Astor, Lady Nancy on age and aging
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"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit on age and aging
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"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."

Auden, W. H. on age and aging
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"Age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging   

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"Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging   

"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Ball, Lucille on age and aging
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"Old age is the verdict of life."

Barr, Amelia E. on age and aging   

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Baruch, Bernard M. on age and aging
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"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."

Beauvoir, Simone De on age and aging   

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."

Beauvoir, Simone De on age and aging   

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

Becker, May L. on age and aging
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"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals."

Beckett, Samuel on age and aging   

"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."

Beckett, Samuel on age and aging   

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

Bergman, Ingmar on age and aging
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"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]"

Bible on age and aging
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"While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]"

Bible on age and aging
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"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]"

Bible on age and aging
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"Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit."

Bierce, Ambrose on age and aging
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"I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else."

Billings, Josh on age and aging   

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Billings, Josh on age and aging
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"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."

Bleasdale, Alan on age and aging   

"To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."

Bonstettin on age and aging
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"The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified."

Boyse, J. F. on age and aging   

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

Brookner, Anita on age and aging   

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."

Brown, Captain J. on age and aging