Aging And Wisdom Quotes

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

The old – like children – talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one’s beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one’s secrets are one’s own!

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

We are always the same age inside.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.