Ageing Quotes

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a name and with age one learns to live without them.

You're never too old to be young.

You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age.

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.

I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

we’re too old to be young.

When the years are dying in the arms of your life, the earth is in pain moving around the sun.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination....

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

When it's all said and done remember, "You are only as old as you look.