I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can “age without aging.” The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm. – Craig D. Slovak
Age attacks when we least expect it. – Terri Guillemets
May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age. – Minna Thomas Antrim, “To Harder Times,” A Book of Toasts, 1902
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. – George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
All diseases run into one, old age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is easiest to see in Winter, between the bare branches of the trees. – Terri Guillemets
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Young twigs will bend, but not old trees. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Woordenboek der Nederduitsche en Fransche Taalen/ Dicti
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? – Terri Guillemets
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. – Michel de Montaigne
The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age. – Craig D. Slovak
The arctic loneliness of age. – S. Weir Mitchell
One mellows almost without realizing it—a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting. – Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm, 2014
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. – Mortimer Collins
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. – Author unknown
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? – Jules Feiffer
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. – Robert Southey, The Doctor
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. – Henry David Thoreau
If I could only go back to thirty, and yet retain all my experience, I would turn somersaults all the way down to Ostergade. – Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), written in his seventieth year [The f
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. – Chinese Proverb
