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Quotes about age and aging
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. (Addison Joseph)
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. (Addison Joseph)
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example. (Addison Joseph)
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. (Addison Joseph)
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years. (Addison Joseph)
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. (Addison Joseph)
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. (Addison Joseph)
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. (Addison Joseph)
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. (Addison Joseph)
Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. (Addison Joseph)
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. (Addison Joseph)
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Addison Joseph)
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. (Addison Joseph)
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. (Addison Joseph)
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age. (Addison Joseph)
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. (Addison Joseph)
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. (Addison Joseph)
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. (Addison Joseph)
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. (Addison Joseph)
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. (Addison Joseph)
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. (Addison Joseph)
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. (Addison Joseph)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. (Addison Joseph)
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. (Addison Joseph)
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. (Addison Joseph)
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