AGE QUOTES
quotations about age
Age is the major risk factor for more than 75% of the mortality suffered by those aged over 64 ... including cancers, circulatory and respiratory illness and neurodegeneration. The traditional view is that each of these many conditions have their own particular causes. This view has driven much research -- and funding. However, the view of biogerontologists, who study the biology of ageing, is that there are a few causes of ageing which substantially contribute to all of these age-related conditions. According to this view, if just a fraction of the billions spent on researching individual conditions were spent on finding and treating the basic causes of ageing, the payoffs could be huge, not least in terms of extended productive (tax-paying) lifespan and reduced healthcare costs.
DAVID CLANCY
"We all age at different speeds -- and scientists have worked out how to calculate it", The Conversation, July 7, 2015
Old age is a crown, not a curse.
JOHN KOESSLER
The Radical Pursuit of Rest: Escaping the Productivity Trap
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE
Dubliners
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
MILAN KUNDERA
Immortality
I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number.
HUGH HEFNER
interview, Apr. 8, 2006
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
STELLA BENSON
I Pose
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
JOYCE KILMER
"Age Comes A-Wooing"
I am all the ages I've ever been.
ANNE LAMOTT
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MENCKEN
Prejudices: Third Series
Age is just an option, not a mandate.
ED MAYHEW
Age Blasters
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
JACK BENNY
The Jack Benny Program
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
SARA GRUEN
Water for Elephants
Old age is just one of the life stages that societies create, and the number and timing of these stages vary.
TONI M. CALASANTI & KATHLEEN F. SLEVIN
Gender, Social Inequalities, and Aging
Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I'll be 26. If man weren't measured in numbers, but rather letters, I'd be turning Z. And then I'd be dead.
JAROD KINTZ
I Should Have Renamed This
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
DONALD JUSTICE
"Men at Forty"
Your best age is now.
ROBI LUDWIG
Your Best Age Is Now: Embrace an Ageless Mindset, Reenergize Your Dreams, and Live a Soul-Satisfying Life
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
TOM STOPPARD
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Peanuts: Be Thankful
I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see.
PAT BENATAR
Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir