Aging Quotes · Page 58

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

— Gerald Brenan

“A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or…

— Ginnetta Correli

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

— Harriet Tubman

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank…

— William Holden

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease,…

— Zoltan Istvan

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm…

— Tony Stewart

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another,…

— Desmond Tutu

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer.…

— Paul Feig

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you…

— Annabelle Selldorf

I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty…

— Kin Hubbard

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that,…

— Richard Griffiths

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about…

— Nicholas Sparks

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow…

— John Mortimer

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

— Goodman Ace

If you started listening to me in the same time we started rapping, we're aging together.

— Offset

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college,…

— Duff Goldman

“More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his…

— Sherman Alexie

Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to…

— Rita Rudner

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

— Elizabeth Janeway

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

— Alain de Botton

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

— Steve Kimock

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you…

— Nicky Gumbel

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

— Stephen Colbert

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

— Alexei Panshin

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

— Rush Limbaugh

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

— Nora Ephron

“our brain’s healthy functioning requires regular physical activity despite the passage of time and ills of the aging process.”

— David Perlmutter

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim…

— Mark Steyn

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion,…

— Deepak Chopra

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

— Joan Rivers

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

— Richard Lamm

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should…

— Jawaharlal Nehru