Quotes About Aging

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart the breaks. The hearts asks more than life can give, When that is learned, then all is learned; The waves break fold on jewelled fold, But beauty itself is fugitive, It will not hurt me when I am old.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Time passes irrevocably.

Time is the best killer.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.