Quotes About Aging

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivist, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

I will never give in to old age until I become old.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Old age is a shipwreck.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.