Quotes about Age

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities.  We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

I want to die young, at a ripe old age

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

When I was five years old, the world was incomprehensible.  When I was thirteen, it seemed to me much smaller, much dirtier, and depressingly predictable.  Today it still seems muddled, but once again - although in a different way - as complex as when I was a child.  With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations.  I don't have the energy to start over again.  To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

If you are old and have the shakes,
If all your bones are full of aches,
If you can hardly walk at all,
If living drives you up the wall,
If you're a grump and full of spite,
If you're a human parasite,
THEN WHAT YOU NEED IS WONKA-VITE!

'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: there is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth; those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity, which make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

"With age come the inner, the higher life.
 Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

~~Elizabeth Cady Stanton~

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.

Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!

Age is a number which puts us in chronological order of time.  Age does not have to dictate how old we feel or act.

I fear that you will believe as we all believe that we can keep breaking into our store of time without counting.  Our lives seem infinite until we reach in one day to find how little of them is left.

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.

It is never to late to be what you might have been.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost."
"And old men?"
"Of what they have not found."

"Remember that Divine Grace is a Blessing as we are alive and well in The Age of Remembrance !"

Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: 'What does his voice sound like?' 'What games does he like best?' 'Does he collect butterflies?' They ask: 'How old is he?' 'How many brothers does he have?' 'How much does he weigh?' 'How much money does his father make?' Only then do they think they know him.

You're only as old as you think you are...if you think at all