Quotes About Aging

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.