Quotes on Aging

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.