Quotes about age and aging

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

Chopra, Deepak on age and aging   

"Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation."

Chopra, Deepak on age and aging   

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging   

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on age and aging
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on age and aging   

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on age and aging   

"A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks."

Collins, Mortimer on age and aging   

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

Colton, Charles Caleb on age and aging   

"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

Cope, Wendy on age and aging   

"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

Curtis, George William on age and aging   

"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."

Dana, Bill on age and aging   

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

Dangerfield, Rodney on age and aging
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"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."

Darrow, Clarence on age and aging
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"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!"

Day, Doris on age and aging
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"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."

Defoe, Daniel on age and aging
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"Keep on raging -- to stop the aging."

Delltones, The on age and aging   

"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings."

Depardieu, Gerard on age and aging   

"I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists."

Desmoulins, Camille on age and aging   

"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

Dickens, Charles on age and aging
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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]"

Dillon, Matt on age and aging   

"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging   

"Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging   

"For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches."

Dix, Dorothy on age and aging   

"Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!"

Dorr, Julia C. R. on age and aging   

"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

Durrell, Lawrence on age and aging   

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on age and aging
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on age and aging