Quotes About Aging

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

The older you get...the smaller the circle of your true friends becomes...for time has a tendency to absorb the time we have for others.

When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.

Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.

A man starts growing old when his wishes turn into regrets.

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent. Jewellers too get old and ugly before they learn how to arrange precious stones properly. And arranging the colours in a painting in order to make them vibrate and to enhance their value by their contrasts is something like arranging jewels properly or designing costumes

She smiled and touched the smattering of silver at his temple, a shyness in her, and yet a new self-possession in her as she came to the realization that love turns a girl into a woman, and a man into a boy.

Time bears away all things, even our minds.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Happy old man!

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.