Quotes on Aging

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

To retire is the beginning of death.

We are always the same age inside.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.