Top 68 Aged Well Quotes
#1. Deep inside, Ella blamed herself. She hadn't aged well
Elif Shafak
#2. I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.
M.F.K. Fisher
#3. I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.
Alana Stewart
#4. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.
Hartley Coleridge
#5. We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
Anna Akhmatova
#6. I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
Anthony Holden
#7. People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
Judith Martin
#8. The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
Andrea Camilleri
#9. After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
Anne Lamott
#10. A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy
#11. Your skin is screaming for attention like a middle-aged woman in the front row at a Bon Jovi concert.
Kim Holden
#12. Hell hath no fury like a middle-aged woman in a fuzzy pink robe, hopped up on a winning combination of allergy medicine, Alias reruns, and anger.
Jen Lancaster
#13. When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
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The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
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Time, the infinity
has marked them ...
Muse
#15. Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?
Grace Helbig
#16. As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
Joseph Campbell
#17. I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.
Chris Bauer
#18. Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Hesiod
#19. An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
Richard Flanagan
#20. If you're middle aged ... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
Elizabeth Perkins
#21. Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept - the world aged, moved forward, yet I ... didn't.
Laura Kreitzer
#22. As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
Janet Fitch
#23. When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.
Craig Brown
#24. I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.
Sarah Parish
#25. Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.
Laini Taylor
#26. It (a singer's voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman's hand.
Michael Perry
#27. It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
Viggo Mortensen
#29. Ren's scent was everywhere. The smoke of aged wood lingering beneath a chilled autumn sky, the smooth burn of well-worn leather, the seductive ribbon of sandalwood. I closed my eyes, letting his scent pour over me, filling me with memories.
Andrea Cremer
#30. A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
William Lyon Phelps
#31. You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Aldrich Ames
#32. It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
Diane Keaton
#33. When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.
Joss Whedon
#34. I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being.
LaShawn Harris
#35. How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles, - are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.
Plato
#36. They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet today ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#37. A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.
Amy Hill Hearth
#38. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott
#39. In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#40. He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.
Rick Riordan
#41. I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II ... I don't really remember much ... there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.
Rob Cantrell
#43. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.
Tina Turner
#44. Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often.
Erika Robuck
#45. Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being thrilled to see you coming? But a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking.
Anne Tyler
#46. Surveys suggest that about one third of all women worldwide face beatings in the home. Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#47. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#48. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#49. The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
Paul Hawken
#50. A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Tamsin Greig
#51. The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants with a penchant for hysterical laughter and kinky sex.
Ilona Andrews
#52. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
George Orwell
#54. Can I help you? She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the middle of it all, the most extraordinary pair of light eyes, just the color of well-aged sherry.
Diana Gabaldon
#55. Was it too much to ask that he would see her and make an advance so she wouldn't come off as some middle-aged slut?
Emma Sydney
#56. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Jeanine Basinger
#58. Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
#59. Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Mason Cooley
#60. Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Franz Grillparzer
#61. Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
J. A. Spender
#62. For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
Bob Hoskins
#64. One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. One of them turned to me conversationally and said, "Baba, don't worry. When you get old one day you'll be sitting here where we are, and we'll be driving you around!
Angus Buchan
#65. Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
Octave Feuillet
#66. A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William Shenstone
#67. 90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?
Sara Gruen
#68. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.
Rick Yancey