Quotes About Aging

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Time passes. You're not as ... recognizable now as you were.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago.

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.

Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.

Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man.

Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.

Old age… it's the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Good friends are like quilts - they age with you yet never lose their warmth.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.

Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life.

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

Old soldiers never die;They only fade away!

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

Old and stricken in years.

In dog years, I'm dead.

Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces.