Quotes about Aging
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
- Billy Graham
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
- John Donne
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
- Mark Twain
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
- Marcus Aurelius
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
- Marianne Williamson
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
- Herman Melville
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- Coco Chanel
Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.
- Max Lucado
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
- Reinhold Niebuhr