Ageing Quotes · Page 5

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

— David Blunkett

“She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.”

— R.J. Lawrence

If you don't do a lot of stupid things while you're young, you won't have funny things to talk about when you're…

— Anonymous

As I approach the big 6-0 I've discovered that the only thing good about mornings is that they end at noon.

— Anonymous

Remember, it's mandatory to grow old, but it's optional to grow up.

— Anonymous

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

— Aubrey de Grey

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

— Anonymous

“A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?”

— Stephen King

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that…

— Sophia Myles

“When the dust settles, you will have known that it was always about ageing well, not just about how fit and strong…

— Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale

When you become old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like…

— Anonymous

Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some,…

— Suhasini Mulay

“Comes a point when even the best of doctors is helpless... It makes more sense to keep metabolic diseases at bay, through…

— Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale

“In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which…

— Adalbert Stifter

“You will find, Brumm,” said Earl Lavender, “that one of two things must be sacrificed by every man who lives to be…

— John Davidson

“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there…

— Roman Payne

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that…

— William Boyd

“So many things seemed to come in plastic bags now that it was difficult to keep track of them. The main thing…

— Barbara Pym

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject…

— Anonymous

“How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an…

— Joseph Heller

“Eustasia Johannsen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent...…

— Clare Vanderpool

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing…

— S. Jay Olshansky

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the…

— Deborah Moggach

I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK. Life is about…

— Heidi Klum

Don't talk to me about Valentines Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

— Joan Rivers

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

— Roy Acuff

“Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year”

— Tim Seeley

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

— Rachel Weisz

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

— Benjamin Franklin

The world is made up of kids who cant wait to grow up...and adults who wish they hadnt.

— Anonymous

I plan on growing old much later in life, or may be not at all. Live life to the fullest

— Anonymous

When I say I miss school, I mean my friends and the fun. Not the studying part.

— Asheya

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we…

— Nishan Panwar

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.

— Pink Floyd

A pretty face gets old, a nice body will change but a good person will always be a good individual.

— Anonymous

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

— M.M. Kaye

“I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many! - Chris Geiger”

— Chris Geiger

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

— Jeremy Hardy