Quotes About Aging

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

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid."

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example, I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

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

Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

Florida: God's waiting room.

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to be seventy, it stretches into a condor.

When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity, she replied, "Red meat and gin."

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.