Quotes about age and aging

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on age and aging
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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

Kollwitz, KaThe on age and aging   

"The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination."

Kronenberger, Louis on age and aging   

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

Kuhn, Maggie on age and aging   

"Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."

Kuhn, Maggie on age and aging   

"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"Few people know how to be old."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet."

Landor, Walter Savage on age and aging   

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Larkin, Philip on age and aging   

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

Larson, Doug on age and aging   

"It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years."

Lehrer, Tom on age and aging   

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Leith, Prue on age and aging   

"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

Lerner, Max on age and aging
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"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."

Lessing, Doris on age and aging   

"One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on age and aging   

"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on age and aging   

"I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become."

Limbaugh, Rush on age and aging   

"Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content."

Lin Yu-tang on age and aging
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"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging   

"For 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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging
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"I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging   

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"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging   

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"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age."

Loren, Sophia on age and aging
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."

Lowell, James Russell on age and aging   

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

Macdonald, George on age and aging   

"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

Macdonald, George on age and aging   

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

Marquis, Don on age and aging   

"Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough."

Marx, Groucho on age and aging
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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Marx, Groucho on age and aging   

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"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."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."

Maurois, Andre on age and aging   

"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

Maurois, Andre on age and aging   

"No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old."

Mayakovsky, Vladimir on age and aging