Aging Quotations

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

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

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.