Top 28 Quotes About Aging Men
#1. To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#2. You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God - ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.
Helen Oyeyemi
#4. I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can't exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It's different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams.
Rasmenia Massoud
#6. [Beveridge] was a driven man, right to the end; his last words, enunciated clearly from his death bed at the age of eighty-four, showed that the aging social reformer was still haunted by the memory of those sick men on the East London streets. 'I have a thousand things to do,' he said, and died.
T.R. Reid
#7. I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
#8. Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
Harrison Ford
#12. Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
Meir Soloveichik
#13. An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.
Diana Athill
#14. Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John Paul II
#15. If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.
Bauvard
#16. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.
Robert D. McFadden
#17. Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus
#18. I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
Lewis Grizzard
#19. At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust.
Shirley Hazzard
#20. The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
Ben Kingsley
#21. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#22. I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.
Lisa Jey Davis
#23. Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
#24. I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
Charles Dickens
#25. Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?
Jeane Westin
#26. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they what it was to be young ... and I seem to have forgotten lately ...
J.K. Rowling
#27. Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny ... it is also her vulnerability.
Susan Sontag
#28. Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
Meryl Streep
