Quotes on 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.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

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

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.