A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Age Quotes
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Age and guile beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
One of two things happens after sixty, when old age takes a fellow by the hand. Either the rascal takes charge as general factotum, and you are in his grip body and soul; or you take him by the neck at the first encounter and after a good shaking make him go your way.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
