Aging Quotes

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You are never too old to become younger!

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

I grow more intense as I age.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Most of our future lies ahead.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

I like life. It's something to do.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Men become old, but they never become good.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves