Quotes About Aging

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.