Aging Quotes

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

~ Maxim Gorky

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

~ Bill Vaughan

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

~ Victor Hugo

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

~ Daniel Defoe

And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.

~ Bible

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

~ Robert Frost

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

~ Cicero

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

~ Cicero

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

~ Pietro Aretino

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

~ Bernard Baruch

Few people know how to be old.

~ La Rochefoucauld

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

~ Leo Rosenberg

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

~ Owen D. Young

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

~ Will Durant

It is always in season for old men to learn.

~ Aeschylus

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

~ Goethe

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

~ William Cowper

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

~ J. P. Senn

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

~ Plato

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

An old codger rampant and still learning.

~ Aldous Huxley

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

~ George Santayana

The arctic loneliness of age.

~ S. Weir Mitchell

When pain ends gain ends too.

~ Robert Browning

No gains without pains.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

~ Tom Stoppard

When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

~ G. B. Stern

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

~ Malcolm Cowley

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

~ Dagobert Runes

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

~ Bible

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

~ Thomas A. Edison

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

~ John Burroughs

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

~ T. S. Eliot

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

~ Jean Paul Richter