Age And Aging

(227 votes)   Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(227 votes)   Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(220 votes)   Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(200 votes)   Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(198 votes)   A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(188 votes)   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.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(186 votes)   As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(184 votes)   Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(183 votes)   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
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(182 votes)   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
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(180 votes)   There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(177 votes)   What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(175 votes)   Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator

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(171 votes)   From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(167 votes)   We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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