Quotes about age and aging

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

Mcdonald, Trevor on age and aging   

"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."

Mead, Margaret on age and aging   

"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

Meir, Golda on age and aging   

"Being seventy is not a sin."

Meir, Golda on age and aging   

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

Melville, Herman on age and aging   

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

Mencken, H. L. on age and aging   

"Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!"

Meredith, George on age and aging   

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest on age and aging
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"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"

Milton, John on age and aging   

"We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it."

Mittleman, Stu on age and aging   

"Minds ripen at very different ages."

Montagu, Elizabeth on age and aging   

"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging   

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging
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"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."

Moody, Dwight L. on age and aging   

"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"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."

Morgan, Arthur E. on age and aging   

"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."

Mortimer, John on age and aging   

"I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me."

Murphy, Eddie on age and aging   

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Nash, Ogden on age and aging   

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do."

Neal, Patricia on age and aging
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"The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face."

Nicklaus, Jack on age and aging   

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."

Noonan, Peggy on age and aging   

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

Nuveen, John on age and aging   

"When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial."

Oates, Joyce Carol on age and aging   

"Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!"

O'Casey, Sean on age and aging   

"The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!"

O'Neill, Eugene on age and aging   

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

Osler, Sir William on age and aging
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"One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him."

Overstreet, Harry A. on age and aging
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."

Palmer, Arnold on age and aging   

"It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily."

Palmer, R. on age and aging   

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich on age and aging   

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Paul, Jean on age and aging
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"Live your life and forget your age."

Peale, Norman Vincent on age and aging
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"Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."

Pepper, Claude D. on age and aging   

"Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall."

Pepper, Claude D. on age and aging   

"Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."

Pepper, Claude D. on age and aging   

"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

Pepper, Claude D. on age and aging