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Quotes About Aging

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
~ Robert Frost
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
~ T. S. Eliot
I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do.
~ Phyllis Diller
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
~ John Burroughs
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
~ Donald Hall
Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?
~ Patton Oswalt
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
~ J. Matthew Nespoli
Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.
~ Philip Roth
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
~ Heather Graham
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.
~ Jacob Braude
As one cat said to another: Birthdays are like fur balls - the more you have the more you gag.
~ Maria Morgan
She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.
~ Anonymous
What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."
~ Toni Anderson
Pushing fifty is exercise enough.
~ Anonymous
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
~ George Burns
He's so old his social security number is two digits.
~ Brian Morgan
Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.
~ Fletcher Anderson
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
~ Bennett Cerf
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
~ George Burns
Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.
~ Peg Bundy
Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
~ Ben Klitzner
People who have the most birthdays live the longest.
~ Jean Bucher