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the LP sleeve acquires the same scuffs, knocks and wrinkles as its purchaser. It engenders the same affection as the ageing groove. Reflective — Richard Osborne

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye — Benny Bellamacina

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. — Julie Bishop

He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything. — Mark Benjamin

After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing. — Kris Aquino

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance. — Aubrey De Grey

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book. — Michael Ondaatje

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. — Demi Moore

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me. — Claudia Schiffer

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington

Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers. — Twiggy

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde

I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years. — Monica Wood

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. — Julie Burchill

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? — Stephen Colbert

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society. — Jennifer Grey

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. — George H. W. Bush

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it creates should be become evident as early as 2016. — Stanley Druckenmiller

Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore. — Emma Ghent Curtis

Almost any age is better than twenty-two. — David Rakoff

Within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. — M.M. Kaye

What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking,
I drift, tossed by the waves of years. — Takuboku Ishikawa

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge. — Paul McGann

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn. — Steven Tyler

Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace — Gary Lineker

we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about. — Cate Blanchett

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old. — Graham Greene

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. — Simone De Beauvoir

It was a horrible thing to be age-stamped by the boyband of your heart. — Jenn McKinlay

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett

No, life is not over at thirty-one! Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and decisively. — Leo Tolstoy

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing. — Anthony Liccione

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time,
and the places we keep them get weaker with age. — Michael Xavier

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. — David Baddiel

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. — George Burns

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected. — Cynthia Kenyon

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. — Ted Dexter

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. — Nicola Sturgeon

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives. — David Blunkett

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it. — Neel Burton

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. — Kim Cattrall

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. — Brad Pitt

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. — Nick Bostrom

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. — Pat Conroy

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. — Nick Nolte

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old. — Jeanette Winterson

Ageing must be like wearing a heavy, itchy suit. — Tom Cardamone

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps — George Harrison

To grow old was to have lived a full life. — S. Jae-Jones

Forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. — Julian Barnes

As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. — Richard Russo

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth. — Jane Yolen

What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will — Stella Gibbons

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect. — Mordecai Richler

Miu let age naturally rise to the surface, accepted it for what it was, and made her peace with it. — Haruki Murakami

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens

One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age. — Anthony Powell

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully. — Miranda Hart

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. — Aubrey De Grey

You're never too old to be young. — Paul Palnik

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older. — Sam Rockwell

Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman. — Osamu Tezuka

What she hadn't expected was how she would feel about ageing. It was as if they were moving even further apart in her mind. The — Robert Bryndza

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside. — Rachel Weisz

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting. — Kim Cattrall

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Look, moon
I turned silver for you. — Sanober Khan

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. — Alfred Tennyson

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. — Jeremy Hardy

I wonder
if I should let my hair go grey
so my advice will be better. — Margaret Atwood

When it's all said and done remember, You are only as old as you look. — Mark W. Boyer

After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness. — Sandor Marai

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Virginia Woolf

Some people age, and some just dehydrate. — Mat Johnson

This is what ageing is, she thinks as she follows Isabelle into the store, these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them. — Khaled Hosseini

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom — George Carlin

Would you still read me when I become a blank page. — Jenim Dibie

You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity. — T.A. Sorensen

Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing — Armistead Maupin

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight — Sheridan Hay

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio. — Hayley Linfield

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. — Roman Payne

It's not that we have more patience as we grow older, it's just that we're too tired to care about all the pointless drama — Karen Gibbs

Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. — Yann Martel

Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises. — Margaret Drabble

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women. — Juliette Binoche

When the years are dying in the arms of your life,
the earth is in pain moving around the sun. — Munia Khan

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament — Martin Firrell

But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me? — David Nichols

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. — Laura Linney

Women are not forgiven for ageing — Jane Fonda

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. — Vera Farmiga

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing. — Trinny Woodall

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it. — Elizabeth Blackburn