Best 924 quotes in «aging quotes» category

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional.

My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.

Now is the time to become a myth.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

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

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

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

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

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

One thing to argue against Hillary Clinton being harmed by my saying on aging is that when you take Hollywood and television and look at the primary demographic there. Hollywood movies. Most of them are made for guys that still have acne, just reached puberty, you know, under 24. And they don't vote, the lowest common denominator in terms of age demographics.

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

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

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.