Quotes About Aging

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

Very few people grow up. Most people grow older but growing up is challenging. Many people get older honor their credit cards matriculate into and graduate out of schools get married and have children. They call that growing up maturing. It's not. It is simply growing old - Maya Angelo

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Oude mensen slijten harder dan hun kleren.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Seneca points out that by causing our bodies to deteriorate, old age causes our vices and their accessories to decay. The same aging process, though, needn't cause our mind to decay; indeed, Seneca remarks that despite his age, his mind "is strong and rejoices that it has but slight connexion with the body." He is also thankful that his mind has thereby "laid aside the greater part of its load."3

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wish'd for Hell for ease from Heaven.

We're not ready for it - for people our age to die. We think we're safe for a while, but it's a dream. No one's safe.

Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.

I heard the old, old men say,"All that's beautiful drifts awayLike the waters."

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

Both men lost speech in their last days and hours. Both died at age sixty-three, Lee long since weary of life, and Grant ready to live it again. Their war made them national icons, and their war reputations dictated the balance of their lives, careers, and posterity.

Old age isa flight of smallcheeping birdsskimmingbare treesabove a snow glaze.

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.