The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
If you’re starting to look wrinkled, don’t worry. It covers the scars.
—Unknown
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events … it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
—Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) American Politician, Civil Rights Activist
Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
—Jane Fonda (b.1937) American Actress, Political Activist
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French Fashion Designer
An old man is a trouble in the house; an old woman is a treasure in the house.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
—Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not from their birth.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society… We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.
—Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy years of age I have ever known, were divided: that dear old soul; that old woman; that old witch.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Age will not be defied.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
None may be called venerable save the wise.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
—Deepak Chopra (b.1946) Indian-born American Physician, Public Speaker, Writer
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn’t, it will be too late to do anything about it.
—Indian Proverb
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives.—Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
—Philibert Joseph Roux (1780–1854) French Surgeon
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
—Common Proverb
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end?
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
—Unknown
You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.
—Unknown
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant