Quotes About Aging

As I approach my golden years, I find that the creative juices still flow bountifully. I've got enough album concepts and ideas to take me years down the road, and as long as God gives me the strength, I'll be writing and recording new music.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

One can't lightly part with a man one has seen at church every Sunday of one's life, and exchanged so many friendly words with over his counter. 'Tis a strong bond of neighbourliness in a small place like this, and, as one grows old, changes come heavier—'the clouds return again after the rain.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore

Se bem que Benjamin Zambraia seja um senhor bastante conservado. Melhor: um rapaz recém-envelhecido.

the body is a clock — bones tick and tock years gather in flesh an alarm set for death

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.

minutes bloom hours flower seconds vine through the hands of time — days hustle weeks speed decades scatter in confetti'd years

Many women are more attractive at fifty than they were at twenty-five; and if their personality has been developed and enriched by the passing years, they may be more charming at sixty than they were at thirty.

That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme.

Love and respect old age people because you are aging too…

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

I guess I don't mind so much being old, as I mind being fat and old.

For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old."

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.