Quotes About Aging

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

nobody ever intends to be old.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.