Time, Aging & Legacy: Aging Quotes

Discover a curated selection of aging quotes that honor the passage of time and the lessons it brings. From reflections on change and resilience to gentle humor about growing older, these words invite perspective and gratitude. Find inspiration to embrace each season of life, deepen wisdom, and celebrate the legacies we build. Whether you seek quiet encouragement, a spark of resolve, or a smile at the quirks of getting older, these quotes offer balanced insight for mindful living and compassionate self-understanding.

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"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"Old age is no place for sissies"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

Stanislaw Lec

"All diseases run into one, old age"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

Betty Friedan, Activist

Betty Friedan

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do"

Golda Meir, Leader

Golda Meir

"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"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own"

Bette Midler, Actress

Bette Midler

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"I'm not afraid of aging"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

Shelley Duvall

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"Age is how we determine how valuable you are"

Jane Elliot, Actress

Jane Elliot

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The idea is to die young as late as possible"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

Ashley Montagu

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us"

Beverly Sills, Musician

Beverly Sills

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

Mickey Mantle

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore"

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"

John Barrymore, Actor

John Barrymore

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up"

George Burns, Comedian

George Burns

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"A man growing old becomes a child again"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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