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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
-Eric Hoffer
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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
-Eric Hoffer
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
-Eric Hoffer
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
-Bob Hope
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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
-Bob Hope
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Growing old is not growing up.
-Doug Horton
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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to
-Huang Ti
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
-Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
-Victor Hugo
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
-W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
-Washington Irving
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
-Holbrook Jackson, "Ladies' Home Journal", January, 1950
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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
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
-Thomas Jefferson
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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
-Elizabeth Jennings
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Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
-Sarah Orne Jewett
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
-Johnson
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Talking is the disease of age.
-Ben Johnson
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
-Samuel Johnson
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
-Samuel Johnson
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They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
-Samuel Johnson
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Books about Age
