Quotes on Aging

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

All would live long, but none would be old.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human _x000D_ condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.