Age And Aging

(81 votes)   Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(81 votes)   Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(80 votes)   The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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

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(78 votes)   Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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

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(78 votes)   Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(72 votes)   At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(72 votes)   If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

James A. Garfield
1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA

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(70 votes)   An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(70 votes)   The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(69 votes)   How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

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

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(67 votes)   Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

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(67 votes)   Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

George Meredith
1828-1909, British Author

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(66 votes)   The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(65 votes)   It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(64 votes)   O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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