Quotes About Aging

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

It seemed strange that someone as old as Aunt Sylvia would talk about growing up. In a way I'm not sure i like the idea that you always keep on doing it. It seems sort of tiring. And then, people don't automatically do it right.

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."

I'd say it was more like The Real Senior Citizens of Henry Adams.

Worry leads to gray hair

Morn after morn dispels the dark, Bearing our lives away; Absorbed in cares we fail to mark How swift our years decay; Some maddening draught hath drugged our souls, In love with vital breath, Which still the same sad chart unrolls, Birth, eld, disease, and death.

While his body's vigor is whole And old age is remote; While his sensuous powers are unimpaired And life not yet exhausted; Only then would a wise man Strive to perfect his soul. Why attempt to dig a well When the house is already burning?

Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*

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That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

One day I woke up and I was the oldest person in every room.

She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. And so you have a man with a brand-new 40-inch waist who is trying to get into size 36 Jockey shorts, a man who is now wearing a combination of supporter and tourniquet. Proud men have gone to the brink of gangrene to maintain the interior fashion of their youth.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

gray hair is gods graffiti

When you become senile, you won't know it.

He's so old his blood type was discontinued.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. —George Burns

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

It made him feel old, as if he'd outlived the very climate of his life, and it made him feel mad, and it made him feel tired.