“When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to aging, not beyond aging, sees another who is aged, he is horrified, humiliated, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to aging, not beyond aging. If I – who am subject to aging, not beyond aging – were to be horrified, humiliated, & disgusted on seeing another person who is aged, that would not be fitting for me.”
— Gautama Buddha, Aṅguttara Nikāya 3:8 as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ponkapog Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), "Leaves From a Notebook", p. 29
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
— André Maurois, The Art of Living (1940), chapter 8, p. 282–83, as translated by James Whitall.
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
— Athenæus, Deipnosophists, XIII. 46.
“Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.”
— Petrarch, To Laura in Death, Sonnet LXXXII.
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
— William Mountford, p. 439.

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