Quotes about age and aging

"I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging   

"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging   

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Shaw, George Bernard on age and aging
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

Shaw, George Bernard on age and aging   

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"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on age and aging   

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

Simon, St. on age and aging   

"It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects."

Smith, Sydney on age and aging   

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

Spark, Muriel on age and aging   

"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

Stael, Germaine De on age and aging   

"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."

Steele, Sir Richard on age and aging   

"That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart."

Steele, Sir Richard on age and aging   

"The trick is growing up without growing old."

Stengel, Casey on age and aging   

"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on age and aging   

"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."

Stone, I. F. on age and aging   

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

Sutzkever, Abraham on age and aging
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging   

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging   

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on age and aging   

"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."

Temple, Sir William on age and aging   

"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

Terence on age and aging   

"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him."

Tholuck on age and aging   

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging   

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging
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"How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets."

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging   

"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."

Thurber, James on age and aging   

"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."

Thurber, James on age and aging   

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

Trotsky, Leon on age and aging   

"I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!"

Turner, Tina on age and aging   

"For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away."

Tusser, Thomas on age and aging   

"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."

Twain, Mark on age and aging   

"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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