Quotes About Ageing

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

I'd rather look old than look as if I'd had plastic surgery. Sometimes it looks really fake; all people can think about when they look at you is that you've had plastic surgery.

Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don't think I'll do cosmetic surgery because I'm a wimp.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

In our youth we sow wild oats; in our dotage we reap pills.

People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

It will seem odd, I suppose, that I should go on in this vein, as if I too were grumbling in my dotage. Yet of this I am convinced, that the conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...