Age And Aging

(114 votes)   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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(105 votes)   Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

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

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(104 votes)   The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(104 votes)   We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(101 votes)   The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(100 votes)   Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(97 votes)   That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(93 votes)   Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(91 votes)   The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(88 votes)   When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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

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(87 votes)   As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(86 votes)   An old man loved is winter with flowers.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(84 votes)   Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(84 votes)   The worst old age is that of the mind.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(82 votes)   None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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