Aging Quotes · Page 19

You got to grow up and mature when you see you've got something going for real.

— Offset

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

— Plutarch

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

— Robert E. Sherwood

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

— Anonymous

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

— Joseph Campbell

I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

— Georges Guetary

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

— Anonymous

“If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.”

— Bauvard

Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the…

— Winston Churchill

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

— Jim Rohn

PERFECT MATURITY:Is when a person hurts you and try,And you try to understand their situation and don't hurt them back.

— Mks Vibz

“Even though the years had added maturity to their countenances (and in some cases, a few wrinkles or a couple of pounds),…

— Melanie Shawn

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

— Pat Conroy

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

— Henry Ford

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

— William Holden

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can…

— David Bowie

“This new spirituality is much more about taking off the masks of pretense and cultivating genuine heart connections that inspire growth in…

— Adam Bucko

“We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away…

— Meg Wolitzer

to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and…

— Storm Jameson

“The main advantage about being over thirty is you no longer have to pretend you have a date on Friday night or…

— Nikki Giovanni

“The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could…

— Peter May

My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back…

— Frances Moore Lappé

“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to…

— Shirley Chisholm

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.…

— Naomi Wolf

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology…

— Timothy Leary

“Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Being an aging woman in this modern world can be either tragic‌—‌or magic. We watch the body of our youth go through…

— Lucy Williams

“The last slide is Main Street at night, with the castle lit silver blue in the background. In the sky, fireworks are…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for…

— Brent Green

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…

— Mark Doty

“The prefrontal cortex is a complex, fragile region of the brain. In its healthy state, it directs human impulses toward rational choices…

— Ron Powers

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

— Walter Wriston

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

— Walter Huston

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

— Will Rogers

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

— Caryl Rivers

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

— Sarah McLachlan

I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.

— Yuki

“Hormonal problems are the top reason I find for accelerated aging,”

— Sara Gottfried