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"
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
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
Advances in anti-ageing therapies and in estimating biological age raise big questions for society, both at an individual level and in the public and private sectors. We should not be frightened of them, but we should start talking about these changes now, before they arrive.
DAVID CLANCY
"We all age at different speeds -- and scientists have worked out how to calculate it", The Conversation, July 7, 2015
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
Age, although just a number, plays such a pivotal role in our lives. Age acts a gatekeeper to whatever activity either your parents or the government has deemed inappropriate for you. Whether it is an increase in curfew, being able to drive, vote, drink alcohol or run for president, age is often the sole determinant in whether or not you are allowed these privileges. However since I have no plans to be commander in chief, and my mother no longer has the power to impose a curfew on me, I must ask myself: what else do I have to look forward to? Is 21 already the pinnacle of my young life?
JAKE KEELEY
"Age is more than just a number", Grand Valley Lanthorn, February 28, 2016
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS
attributed, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis
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 just one of the markers we use to discriminate.
RICHARD L. SPROTT
"Reality Check", Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future
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 but a comparison.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Jet Magazine, Aug. 1992