Quotes about age and aging

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."

Brown, Rita Mae on age and aging   

"A woman's always younger than a man at equal years."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on age and aging   

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

Browning, Robert on age and aging   

"Grow old with me the best is yet to come."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

Buck, Pearl S. on age and aging
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"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on age and aging
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"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on age and aging   

"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

Bunuel, Luis on age and aging   

"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese"

Burke, Billie on age and aging   

"It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere."

Burns, George on age and aging   

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

Burns, George on age and aging
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"How can I die? I'm booked."

Burns, George on age and aging   

"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."

Burns, George on age and aging
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Burroughs, John on age and aging
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"To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am."

Buruch, Andre B. on age and aging
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"Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

Carey, Joyce on age and aging   

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Carlyle, Thomas on age and aging   

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

Carlyle, Thomas on age and aging   

"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."

Carr, Emily on age and aging   

"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."

Carter, Lillian on age and aging   

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

Cass, Eli on age and aging
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

Cato The Elder on age and aging   

"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on age and aging   

"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

Chesterfield, Lord on age and aging   

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on age and aging
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"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives."

Chevalier, Maurice on age and aging   

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."

Child, Lydia M. on age and aging   

"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age."

Child, Lydia M. on age and aging   

"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."

Chopra, Deepak on age and aging