Quotes About Aging

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old age is no place for sissies.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.