Quotes About Ageing

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.

Women grow old; women cease to learn; but men, never.

As crianças crescem depressa neste ambiente de baixa gravidade. Mas não envelhecem na mesma proporção e assim viverão mais do que nós.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad

If a man never grew old, I would never wish him to have a wife!

Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

You are thinking.'' he said. ''that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

After the World Cup, it was so intense, and a lot of pressure was put on me - unfairly, I thought, at times - and it is always a worry, but you get older, you get a better support team, and I haven't hidden the fact about my past, and I never will because I'm not ashamed of it.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

I've got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time - otherwise I'm going to look like I'm in 'Bugsy Malone.'

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics

They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.

Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here