Age And Aging

(25 votes)   Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

J. P. Senn

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(25 votes)   Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

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(25 votes)   The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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

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(25 votes)   The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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(24 votes)   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.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(24 votes)   Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

Source Unknown

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(24 votes)   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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(24 votes)   The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Sigmund Z. Engel

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(23 votes)   For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dorothy Dix
1861-1951, American Columnist

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(23 votes)   In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Source Unknown

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(23 votes)   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.

Sydney Smith
1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman

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(22 votes)   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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(22 votes)   Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

Source Unknown

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(22 votes)   Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Matt Dillon
1964-, American Actor

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(21 votes)   In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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