Age And Aging

(63 votes)   How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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

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(61 votes)   A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

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(61 votes)   Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Philip Larkin
1922-1986, British Poet

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(60 votes)   For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser
c. 1520-15C. 1580-, British Writer On Agriculture

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(60 votes)   Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Simone De Beauvoir
1908-1986, French Novelist, Essayist

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(59 votes)   The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

Eugene O'Neill
1888-1953, American Dramatist

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(59 votes)   You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Fay Weldon
1933-, British Novelist

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(58 votes)   My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(58 votes)   The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(57 votes)   How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(57 votes)   Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(57 votes)   Talking is the disease of age.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(56 votes)   Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Ralph B. Perry

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(56 votes)   How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(55 votes)   I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown
1944-, American Writer

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