Quotes about age and aging

"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."

Haydon, Benjamin on age and aging   

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Hayes, Helen on age and aging
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us."

Hazlitt, William on age and aging   

"The worst old age is that of the mind."

Hazlitt, William on age and aging
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

Hemingway, Ernest on age and aging
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"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."

Herbert, George on age and aging   

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

Hershfield, Harry on age and aging
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"Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep."

Herzen, Alexander on age and aging   

"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."

Hoagland, Edward on age and aging   

"Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging   

"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging
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"To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging   

"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

Hope, Bob on age and aging   

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."

Hope, Bob on age and aging   

"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."

Hope, Bob on age and aging   

"Growing old is not growing up."

Horton, Doug on age and aging
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"Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to"

Huang Ti on age and aging   

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging   

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

Inge, Dean William R. on age and aging   

"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old."

Irving, Washington on age and aging
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"How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?"

James, William on age and aging   

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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

Jefferson, Thomas on age and aging
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"At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all."

Jennings, Elizabeth on age and aging   

"Wrecked on the lee shore of age."

Jewett, Sarah Orne on age and aging   

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"One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past."

Johnson on age and aging   

"Talking is the disease of age."

Johnson, Ben on age and aging   

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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

Johnson, Samuel on age and aging   

"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."

Johnson, Samuel on age and aging   

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."

Jung, Carl on age and aging
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"The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on age and aging   

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on age and aging   

"In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite."

Kangas, Steve on age and aging   

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved."

Kennedy, Rose F. on age and aging   

"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Kent, Dorothea on age and aging   

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

Kierkegaard, Søren on age and aging