wrinkles

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light

By contrast, my wife at fifty-two yeas old seems to me just as attractive as the day I first met her. If I were to say this out loud, she would say, 'Douglas, that's just a line. No one prefers wrinkles, no one prefers grey.' To which I'd reply, '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? It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or fourty-three. It's that face.'Perhaps she would have liked to hear this but I had never got around to saying it out loud. I had always presumed there would be time and now, sitting on the edge of the bed at four a.m., no longer listening out for burglars, it seemed that it might be too late.

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...

Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets