The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. — Mary Beth Danielson Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
“It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“Renaissance,” Alice’s husband said casually. “A rebirth? Like you guys have been able to start again now that you’re together?” Cali shook… — Zannie Adams Copy Share Image
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed. — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Maturity is not that -we start speaking big thing-but its actually wen we start understanding small thing. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
