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Quotes About Aging

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
~ Bette Midler
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
~ Jim Fiebig
All diseases run into one, old age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
~ Unknown
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope
When you become senile, you won't know it.
~ Bill Cosby
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
~ Bill Cosby
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
~ Jonathan Swift
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.
~ Unknown
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~ Don Marquis
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.
~ Unknown
People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body.
~ Unknown
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
~ Robert Quillen
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
~ Carrie Fisher
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...
~ Unknown
When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
~ George Burns
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
~ Mike Tyson
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
~ Robert Orben
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
~ Tracey Ullman
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away
~ Unknown
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
~ Bob Dylan
Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
~ Robert A Heinlein