AGE QUOTES II
quotations about age
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"Epigrams of a Cynic"
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.
MARGARET LOCK
Encounters with 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.
LORD BYRON
Childe Harold
Old age is more than a hobby. It is not something to take lightly, to fritter away, or during which we are expected to mindlessly fill time. It is, rather, a large part of living and presents us with opportunities unlike those found in the other stages of life.
JURIETTA MCCALL & CLIFF DEMPSTER
Living Well as You Age: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Age is just one of the markers we use to discriminate.
RICHARD L. SPROTT
"Reality Check", Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
As we get older, our risk grows for all kinds of different diseases. To prevent multiple diseases simultaneously, ageing itself has to be the target. Otherwise, it's a game of whack-a-mole.
DAN BELSKY
"Age is just a number -- you could be getting older three times faster than your birthday suggests", BT, July 7, 2015
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS
attributed, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Ponkapog Papers
One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women.
HOWARD JACOBSON
interview, "Howard Jacobson: The later you get married the better. Sixty is the ideal age", The Guardian, February 13, 2016
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.
BAI JUYI
"At the End of Spring"
Age is not the enemy. Neither is the passage of time. It is the collateral damage ... that creates a problem for us.
JOHN KOESSLER
The Radical Pursuit of Rest: Escaping the Productivity Trap
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Regiment Of Health", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Crabbed Age and Youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, Age is full of care;
Youth is like a summer morn, Age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, Age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and Age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; Youth, I do adore thee.
O, my love, my love is young!
Age, I do defy thee! O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,
For methinks thou stay'st too long.
ANONYMOUS
"Crabbed Age and Youth", The Passionate Pilgrim
Old age is frequently resisted and rejected, especially in North American culture: age is something that is fought intensely, and weapons of questionable effectiveness are eagerly supplied by the beauty and biomedical industries. In some cultures, however, a ripe old age is bestowed with certain benefits, such as elder status and an inherent association with wisdom that demands respect. Thus, to some extent, age and its interpretation are mental and cultural concepts.
KAREL SCHRIJVER & IRIS SCHRIJVER
Living with the Stars: How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars
MARILYN MONROE: What about the difference in our ages?
JACK: Oh, it's not that big a difference. You're twenty-five and I'm thirty-nine.
MARILYN MONROE: I know, Jack. But what about twenty-five years from now when I'm fifty and you're thirty-nine?
JACK: Gee, I never thought of that.
JACK BENNY
The Jack Benny Program
Age is but a comparison.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
You know, at the time -- you think 30, you think you're old. We thought we were old at 30. And then you look back, and of course that's funny.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015