Age does not protect you
from love. But love, to
some extent,
protects you from age.
?Jeanne Moreau
The closing years of life are like
the end of a masquerade party,
when the masks are dropped.
?Arthur Schopenhauer
The whole business of marshaling
one's energies becomes more and
more important as one grows older.
?Hume Cronyn
I find that a man is as old as his work.
If his work keeps him from moving forward,
he will look forward with the work.
?William Ernest Hocking
Years and sins are always
more than owned.
?Italian Proverb
No man is ever old
enough to know better.
?Holbrook Jackson
A woman's always younger
than a man of equal years.
?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To keep the heart unwrinkled,
to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent
that is to triumph over old age.
?Thomas B. Aldrich
Dying while you are young is
a great boon in your old age.
?Sebastian Trabish
To know how to grow old is
the master work of wisdom,
and one of the most difficult chapters
in the great art of living.
?Henri Frederic Amiel
I've never known a person who
lives to 110 who is
remarkable for anything else.
?Josh Billings
Aging seems to be the only available
way to live a long life.
?Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
The tendency of old age to the body,
say the physiologists, is to form bone.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an
old man whose opinions are not ossified.
?J. F. Boyse
The three ages of man: youth,
middle age, and
"You're looking wonderful!"
?Dore Schary
I believe the true function of age is
memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
?Rita Mae Brown
Old age has deformities enough
of its own. It should never
add to them the deformity of vice.
?Cato The Elder
The good die young - because they see
it's no use living if you've got to be good.
?John Barrymore
Old age isn't so bad when you
consider the alternatives.
?Maurice Chevalier
A comfortable old age is the reward
of a well-spent youth. Instead of its
bringing sad and melancholy prospects
of decay, it would give us
hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
?Lydia M. Child
You know you're getting old when the
candles cost more than the cake.
?Bob Hope
Middle age is youth without
levity, and age without decay.
?Daniel Defoe
Old age is an insult. It's
like being smacked.
?Lawrence Durrell
I'm saving that rocker for the
day when I feel as old as I am.
?Dwight D. Eisenhower
Few women, I fear, have had such
reason as I have to think the long
sad years of youth were worth
living for the sake of middle age.
?George Eliot
Life begins at 40 -- but so do
fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty
eyesight, and the tendency to
tell a story to the same
person, three or four times.
?William Feather
One of the many things nobody ever
tells you about middle age is that it's
such a nice change from being young.
?Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old;
they may die of old age, but they die young.
?Benjamin Franklin
If wrinkles must be written upon
our brows, let them not be written
upon the heart.
The spirit should never grow old.
?James A. Garfield
Age does not make us childish, as
some say; it finds us true children.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You're only young once, but
you can be immature forever.
?John Greier
The end comes when we no longer
talk with ourselves. It is the end of
genuine thinking and the
beginning of the final loneliness.
?Eric Hoffer
My only fear is that I may live too long.
This would be a subject of dread to me.
?Thomas Jefferson
At last now you can be what the
old cannot recall and the young
long for in dreams,
yet still include them all.
?Elizabeth Jennings
Old age is an excellent time
for outrage. My goal is to
say or do at least one
outrageous thing every week.
?Maggie Kuhn
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.
?Doris Lessing
Age is not a particularly interesting
subject. Anyone can get old. All
you have to do is live long enough.
?Groucho Marx
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.
?Margaret Mead
Old age is like flying through
a storm. Once you are aboard,
there's nothing you can do.
?Golda Meir
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!
?George Meredith
We are not limited by our old
ages; we are liberate by it.
?Stu Mittleman
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!
?Eugene O'Neill
You know you're getting old
when all the names in your black
book have M. D. after them.
?Arnold Palmer
The more sand has escaped from
the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.
?Jean Paul
Age should not have its face lifted,
but it should rather teach the world to
admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience
and the firm line of character.
?Ralph B. Perry
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you haven't committed.
?Anthony Powell
Just remember, once you're over
the hill you begin to pick up speed.
?Charles M. Schultz
Old age adds to the respect due to
virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired
by vice; it whitens only the hair.
?J. P. Senn
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
(Merchant Of Venice)
?William Shakespeare
When a noble life has prepared old
age, it is not decline that it reveals,
but the first days of immortality.
?Germaine De Stael
If you carry your childhood with
you, you never become older.
?Abraham Sutzkever
You end up as you deserve. In
old age you must put up with the
face, the friends, the health, and
the children you have earned.
?Fay Weldon
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with
the haughty breadth of the universe,
old age flowing free with the
delicious near-by freedom of death.
?Walt Whitman
No woman should ever be
quite accurate about her age.
It looks so calculating.
?Oscar Wilde
The person of wisdom
is the person of years.
?Edward Young
Be wise with speed; a fool
at forty is a fool indeed
?Edward Young
