Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have… — Judith Viorst
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. — Jane Wagner
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. — William Arthur Ward
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or… — Earl Warren
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. — Eudora Welty
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Edith Wharton
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what… — Ron White
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis… — George Will
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse
Minds ripen at very different ages. — Stevie Wonder
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among… — Virginia Woolf
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. — Edward Young
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. — Benjamin Franklin
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. — Ray Bradbury
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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