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Quotes about age and aging
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. (Addison Joseph)
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. (Addison Joseph)
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. (Addison Joseph)
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. (Addison Joseph)
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. (Addison Joseph)
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. (Addison Joseph)
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. (Addison Joseph)
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice] (Addison Joseph)
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. (Addison Joseph)
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? (Addison Joseph)
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have. (Addison Joseph)
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me. (Addison Joseph)
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! (Addison Joseph)
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. (Addison Joseph)
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. (Addison Joseph)
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. (Addison Joseph)
The golden age is before us, not behind us. (Addison Joseph)
It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects. (Addison Joseph)
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. (Addison Joseph)
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. (Addison Joseph)
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. (Addison Joseph)
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart. (Addison Joseph)
The trick is growing up without growing old. (Addison Joseph)
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. (Addison Joseph)
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Addison Joseph)
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