Aging Quotes · Page 22

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life.”

— Anonymous

The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.

— June Brown

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

— George Burns

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

— Jane Austen

An old young man, will be a young old man.

— Benjamin Franklin

I guess you just have to embrace aging, right?

— Brook Lopez

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

— Jules Feiffer

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

— Metta World Peace

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having…

— Seneca the Younger

“Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I…

— Michael Hodgin

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

— Vin Scully

There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.

— Robert James Thomson

I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have…

— William Butler Yeats

“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works. The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”

— Toba Beta

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old…

— Winston Churchill

Being sorry is not a weakness of you, but a maturity of how far you have come and grown.

— Faith Adeniyi

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was…

— V.C. Andrews

“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age…

— Carl Sagan

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration.…

— Wendy Lustbader

The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not…

— Austan Goolsbee

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present…

— George Eliot

“There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking…

— R. Alan Woods

“[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature…

— Dalma Heyn

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear…

— Mark Twain

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of…

— John Steinbeck

“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain…

— Arthur Miller

“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all…

— Haruki Murakami

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and…

— Gabor Maté

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

— Robert Breault

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

— Joseph Joubert

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

— Voltaire

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

— Maggie Smith

“Be Mature is not always about age, but how big the responsibility they have..”

— Sukma Archie

Grades don't define intelligence and age doesn't define maturity.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

— Larry McMurtry

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

— Mason Cooley