Aging Quotes
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Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
Henry Taube -
I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.
Anthony Caro
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I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
William Butler Yeats -
People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
Rita Moreno -
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
William Devane -
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
William Shakespeare -
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather -
Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.
Michael Fossel
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A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
Michael Caine -
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
Dolly Parton -
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown -
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
Paul Claudel -
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase -
If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.
Andrew Niccol
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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
William H. Gass -
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
Courteney Cox -
I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.
William Butler Yeats -
It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.
Alex Smith -
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.
Ana Monnar -
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
William Butler Yeats
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
William Butler Yeats -
O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
William Butler Yeats -
Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
William Butler Yeats -
...an old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare