Aging
- Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.--Jim Fiebig
- Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and other is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.--Rose McCaulay (Dangerous Ages)
- Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.--Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.--Billie Burke
- Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.--Florida Scott-Maxwell
- The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.--Doug Larson
- Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.--Margaret Atwood
- Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.--Franz Kafka
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eight. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.--Harvey Ullman
- As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it!--Margaret Deland
- At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.--Jock Falkson
- At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.--William Lyon Phelps
- But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- Children are a great comfort in your old age--and they help you reach it faster, too.--Lionel Kauffman
- The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.--Rosalyn S. Yalow
- Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.--Logan Pearsall Smith
- Few people know how to be old.--La Rochefoucauld
- A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him why he had taken up the study of Greek at the age of ninety-four. Holmes replied, "Well, my good sir, it's now or never." (Quoted in He Still Moves Stones by Lucado)
- Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.--Albert Brooks (on Twitter, 7/22/11)
- Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old,
and an old man in whom there is something of the young.
Guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.--Marcus Tillius Cicero
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.--Madeleine L'Engle (The New York Times, 1985)
- The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.—-Howard Thurman
- How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;
One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.
What is the secret of the trick?
How did I get so old so quick?--Ogden Nash ("Preface to the Past" You Can't Get There from Here)
- How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?--Satchel Paige
- I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.--Frances Lear
- I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.--Konrad Adenauerx
- I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.--Susan Sarandon
- I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.--Mary Sarton (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)
- I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.--Clint Eastwood
- I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.--Margaret Mead
- If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.--James A. Garfield
- If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.--Ed Howe
- If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.--Larry McMurty
- In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.--Victor Hugo (letter, January 7, 1869)
- It annoys me when people say "Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!" Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be loved by people whose hearts have practiced loving for a long time?-- Susan Moon (This is Getting Old: Zen thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity)
- It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. In these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer.--Cicero
- It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.--Brigitte Bardot
- A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.--Liz Carpenter
- Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.--Kurt Vonnegut
- My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.--Nancy Collins
- Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at 89. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at 80. And the 80-year -old Spanish artist Goya scrawled on a drawing, "I am still learning."--Dr. W. Gifford-Jones
- Nobody cares how old you are but you. People only care about what you can do, and you can do anything you want, at any age.--Steve Chandler (100 Ways to Motivate Yourself)
- Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.--Douglas MacArthur
- Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.--Don Marquis
- Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and restless you become, but your view becomes more extensive.—-Ingmar Bergman
- Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.--Maurice Chevalier (New York Times, October 9, 1960)
- Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.--Gerald Brenan ("Life" Thoughts in a Dry Season: a Miscellany)
- The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.--Oscar Wilde
- Old men [and women] ought to be explorers.
Here and there does not matter. We must be still
And still moving, into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion…--T. S. Eliot (The Four Quartets)
- The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about other people is to love them.--Dorothy Day
- On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.--Freya Stark
- One thing that can make us old fast is thinking that we are getting old.--Robert P. Lockwood (A Guy's Guide to the Good Life)
- People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.--Anonymous
- People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.--Rita Moreno
- The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.--Marya Mannes (More in Anger)
- The second act of some people’s lives may begin with a conversion or a major turning point. Others speak of a defining moment. The old self is laid to rest and a new self is born - one governed by principle, spirit and passion. You may be ready for Act Two. It is the final scene of a life that counts.--Steve Goodier
- Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job."--Paul Leautaud (Journal litteraire)
- Spring still makes spring in the mind
When sixty years are told.
Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
And we are never old.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("The World-Soul" May-Day and Other Pieces)
- Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.--Ethel Percy Andrus
- A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.--Abraham Heschel
- There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.--Sophia Loren
- This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.--Dorothy Fuldheim
- Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.--Bo Bennett
- Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.--Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.--Henri Frederic Amiel
- To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.--Clara Ortega
- The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off ... you will see the scar there still.--Olive Schreiner
- We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.--Arthur Stanley Eddington (The Nature of the Physical World)
- We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.--Will Rogers
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.--George Bernard Shaw
- What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.--Henry David Thoreau
- When I fear the loss of my youthfulness and refuse to accept the reality of aging, turn my face to the brilliant colors of autumn trees; open my spirit to the mellow resonance of autumn sunsets and the beauty of the changing land.--Joyce Rupp & Macrina Wiederkehr (The Circle of Life: The Heart’s Journey Through the Seasons)
- When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.--Sam Ewing
- Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.--Dale Turner
- Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.--Tom Wilson
- Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.--Gloria Steinem
- The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.--William Butler Yeats
- Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)
- Women sit or move to and fro, some are old, some young. The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful then the young.--Walt Whitman
- You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair.--Douglas MacArthur
- You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.--John Nuveen
- You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.--Bob Hope
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