~ Aging and Old Age Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

Owen D. Young

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Frederic Amiel

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

T. S. Eliot

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Malcolm Cowley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Leo Rosenberg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

George Burns

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

William Cowper

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Malcolm Cowley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Bill Vaughan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich