Age and Aging Quotes

There are (14) Age and Aging Quotes on this page.

"We do not quit playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we quit playing."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

"We must not take the faults of our youth with us
into old age, for age brings along its own defects."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~Henry David Thoreau~

"Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
~Fred Astaire~ Age & Aging quotes

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's
faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
~W. Somerset Maugham~

"The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young
when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example."
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."
~Abraham Lincoln~

"Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very
few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
~Voltaire~

"I want to die young at a ripe old age."
~Ashley Montagu~

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly,
cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
~Thomas B. Aldrich~

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."
~Daniel Francois Esprit Auber~

"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~

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
~Robert Browning~

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals."
~Samuel Ullman~

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