Famous Quotes about Age and Aging (402 Quotations)

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

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

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.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do –after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.