Quotes About Aging

The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.

Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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

The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

Every year as you grow older it is your duty to add more years of wisdom. This wisdom may come in many ways. Use it to the best of your abilities

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

One first celebrates a 'silver jubilee', then a 'golden jubilee', then a 'diamond jubilee', but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation).

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind,

Growing gray hair is the glory of life.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.