AGE QUOTES III
quotations about age
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Jet Magazine, Aug. 1992
Age is just one of the markers we use to discriminate.
RICHARD L. SPROTT
"Reality Check", Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
SOPHIA LOREN
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is the epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
KURT VONNEGUT
Deadeye Dick
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
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 an "umbrella" variable under which various changes in people's lives are subsumed.
P. MATTHIJS BAL
"A lifespan perspective on psychological contracts and their relations with organizational commitment", Age in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities
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
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
The flip side of the other joke about aging -- "Beats the alternative" -- is that it will. Happen. To. You. Unless you opt for the alternative, which, from what I hear, lacks flavor.
MARK HUGHES COBB
"Acting your age is all the rage"
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Do not cast yourself aside as you grow old!
JURIETTA MCCALL & CLIFF DEMPSTER
Living Well as You Age: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
letter to Arthur Hugh Clough, Feb. 12, 1853
The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Counsels and Maxims
Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
THEOCRITUS
"The Love of Thyonichus"
What we think of as old has changed over time, and it will need to continue changing in the future as people live longer, healthier lives.
YAGANA SHAH
"60, Not 50, Is The New Middle Age, Study Says", Huffington Post, April 16, 2015