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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
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Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
Beckett, Samuel

2.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Greier, John

3.
If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

4.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Swift, Jonathan

5.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
Yeats, William Butler

6.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Carlyle, Thomas

7.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
Cicero, Marcus T.

8.
I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Desmoulins, Camille

9.
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Greer, Germaine

10.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Baruch, Bernard M.

12.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Woolf, Virginia

14.
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
Plato

15.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Defoe, Daniel

16.
I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
Murphy, Eddie

17.
Growing old is not growing up.
Horton, Doug

18.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
Harris, Sidney J.

19.
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
Fonda, Jane

20.
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Sayers, Dorothy L.

21.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Bleasdale, Alan

22.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Child, Lydia M.

23.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Hemingway, Ernest

24.
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
Jennings, Elizabeth

25.
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Limbaugh, Rush

26.
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

27.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Churchill, Winston

28.
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Kennedy, Rose F.

31.
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

32.
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Burroughs, John

33.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Seneca

34.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Byron, Lord

35.
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

36.
Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

37.
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Lehrer, Tom

38.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Noonan, Peggy

39.
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
Byron, Lord

40.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
Temple, Sir William

41.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Billings, Josh

42.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Byron, Lord

43.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
Shakespeare, William

44.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Turner, Tina

45.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]
Dillon, Matt

46.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Proverb

47.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Rostand, Jean

48.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Byron, Lord

49.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Thoreau, Henry David

50.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Philo


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