Quotes about Aging

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

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

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

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.