Top Aging Quotes

I'm not afraid of aging.

Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social...

Aging Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexu...

No gains without pains.

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

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...

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophistica...

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

Never, enjoins a women's magazine, mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right. Tha...

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their ad...

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept wh...

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

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

It is time to be old To take in sail.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.