Age And Aging

(50 votes)   With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(48 votes)   Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Claude D. Pepper

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(48 votes)   I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Rush Limbaugh
1951-, American TV Personality

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(47 votes)   It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(47 votes)   There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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(47 votes)   Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957, British Author

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(47 votes)   When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Samuel Ullman
1840-1924, German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet

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(47 votes)   Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author

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(46 votes)   At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(46 votes)   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?

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(46 votes)   I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(45 votes)   Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Keith Richards
1943-, British-born American Musician, Survivor, Songwriter

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(45 votes)   I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Irene Mayer Selznick

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(45 votes)   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.

Lin Yn-tang
1895-1976, Chinese Writer and Philologist

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(45 votes)   The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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