Aging Quotes · Page 28

Succes is not a game of elders its a game of Kid.

— Nikkie

“Old age," she says, "is a wonderful disguise.”

— Katherine Applegate

Education is the best provision for old age.

— Aristotle

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

— Nadine Gordimer

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

— Ray Bradbury

“Supplements and a low protein diet appear to be prolonging my life.”

— Steven Magee

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

— Laura Linney

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

— Anne Bradstreet

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

— Alexander Pope

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

— Anonymous

“Even those who have average gifts, given a few hundred years, come to maturity.”

— Hermann Hesse

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

— Joan Rivers

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to…

— Rineke Dijkstra

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our…

— Paul Stamets

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within…

— Eckhart Tolle

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“I told him some of my best stories: the one about the sewer and the train tracks and the neighbor's dogs. Weylyn…

— Ruth Emmie Lang

“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom…

— Mavis Gallant

“Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time…

— Aimee Bender

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults…

— Allan Bloom

When I started in the field, aging research was the backwater of biology. The idea that you could find a molecule that…

— David Andrew Sinclair

“After all these years, his best friend is malaria. Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep…

— Louis Bayard

I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year…

— Isabel Allende

“Hey you, long face,' shouted an elderly gent who must have been at least seventy years old, but who was dancing through…

— Salman Rushdie

“People used to die naturally. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. There were invisible killers called…

— Neal Shusterman

“But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray…

— Lilith Saintcrow

Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When…

— Sean Penn

“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current…

— Annie Dillard

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the…

— Woody Allen

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…

— Anne Lamott

“The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under…

— Søren Kierkegaard

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Maturity has nothing to do with age and everything to do with behaviour

— Sarah Moores

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

— William Pitt

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

— Anthony Hopkins

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

— Roy Acuff

We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

— Alec Baldwin

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

— Charles Durning

“it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over them;—”

— Laozi