AGE AND AGING

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Hervey Allen

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Fred Astaire

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Thomas Arnold

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Judith Viorst

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.
Source Unknown

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul Richter

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul Richter

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
Lord Byron

A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
Lord Byron

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Jean Paul Richter

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
George Eliot

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.
Henri Frederic Amiel

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Marcus T. Cicero

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Cato The Elder

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Carl Jung

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Winston Churchill

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Seneca

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
Francis Bacon

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Germaine Greer

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Ambrose Bierce

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
Plato

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Chinese Proverbs

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns

The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Amos Bronson Alcott

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Eric Hoffer

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffer