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Quotes About Aging

Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
~ John Betjeman
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
~ John Noble
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.
~ John Steinbeck
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
~ John Travolta
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
~ Gabrielle Union
My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.
~ Hines Ward
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
~ Gabrielle Union
Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.
~ Meg Cabot
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.
~ Colin Goh
A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
~ Helen Fisher
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
~ Jimmy Dean
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
~ Doug Larson
As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.
~ Sandra Bullock
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
~ Terry Pratchett
You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.
~ Rashida Jones
If asked how much money one requires in life, the answer should be so much as to maintain the parents lifestyle growing the way it has been as long as they are alive.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.
~ Groucho Marx
Since I was in my 20s, I've been giving my face 30 hot splashes in the morning and at night, and I keep thinking, If it's 25, oh my gosh, I'm going to fall apart.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
~ Milton Friedman
Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
~ Ogden Nash
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
~ Lawrence Taylor
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
~ Tracy Chevalier
I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.
~ Johnny Mathis