Quotes About Aging

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

The only thing some people do is get older.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.