Quotes on Aging

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

The old are in a second childhood.

Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

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.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

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

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

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.