SAYINGS ON AGING

-The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

-Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain

-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

-Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas

-The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

-True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut

-Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt

-Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon
-You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. Maurice Chevalier
-Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer

-Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain

-I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. Sting

-It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Jules Renard

-My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. Warren Beatty

-As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero

-After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler

-I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings

-In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Beverly Sills

-My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. Warren Beatty

-I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings

-When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. Yoko Ono

-You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. Judith Viorst

-Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides

-Age is how we determine how valuable you are. Jane Elliot

-As men get older, the toys get more expensive. Marvin Davis

-Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent

-Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?' Nawal El Saadawi

-Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne

-If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. B. F. Skinner

-Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark

-A grownup is a child with layers on. Woody Harrelson

-Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams
-Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
-Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

-One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. Malcolm Muggeridge

-I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. James Broughton

-I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. Olivia Munn

-Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. Donald G. Mitchell

-A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles

-Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson

-Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C. S. Lewis
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois

- I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot

- I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. Bob

- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Golda Meir

- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel
-Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
- The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel

- Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. Hugh Hefner

-The surest sign of age is loneliness. Annie Dillard

-To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Amos Bronson Alcott

- If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! Kevin Spacey

BELIEVE IN YOUR SELF

 -Believe in yourself. There is no more miserable human being than the one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. The height by which great men attained were not achieved by sudden flight but they while others sleep were toiling all night long.

-Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.


 -Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson

-I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. Marla Gibbs

-Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Saint Augustine

-My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not. Randy Bachman

-Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

-There are no small accidents on this circuit. Ayrton Senna

-There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. Bob Ross

-I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. John Mayer

-We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. Stephen Jay Gould

-I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor. John Prescott

-A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. Rowan Williams

-Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. Bear Grylls

-Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage. Rahul Dravid

-In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did. Wayne Dyer

-The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle

-It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. Pope Francis

-I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that. Andrea Bocelli

-Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. Gary Numan


-It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen. Ayrton Senna




-To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Cornelia Otis Skinner

-There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. Frida Kahlo

-Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Tom Chatfield

-There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. Frida Kahlo

-Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Tom Chatfield


-Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. J. B. Priestley