Wisdom in Words: 65 Quotes to Live By
65 Best Aging Quotes
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost
“The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary on it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.” – Phyllis Diller
“By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – Bill Vaughan
“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” – John Wagner
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
“Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.” – George Burns
“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope
“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” – Maurice Chevalier
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
“It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.” – Unknown
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
“The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It matters not how long we live but how.” – Philip James Bailey
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.” – Ingrid Bergman
“One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
“We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein
“It’s not how old you are. It’s how you are old.” – Jules Renard
“Aging is just another word for living.” – Cindy Joseph
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stainslaw Jerzy Lec
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” – George Sand
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” – Luis Bunuel
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” – Satchel Paige
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” – Ausonius
“I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.” – Evangeline Lilly
“I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It’s always a process, but getting older, I’ve become more confident.” – Brittany Snow
“That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.” – Frances McDormand
“Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.” – Lena Headey
“Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it, so you might as well stay on the bus.” – John Byrne
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns
“As I’m getting older, I’m enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I’ve deserved them.” – Brooke Shields
“I’m getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.” – John Lithgow
“If it means being settled and content, getting older can be a relief.” – Kate Garraway
“I highly recommend getting older! There’s less tendency to people-please.” – Alanis Morissette
“I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
“There are creative benefits to getting older.” – Ron Howard
“If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.” – Tom Petty
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“You can’t stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.” – Anita Dobson
“Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” – Unknown
“There is nothing more aging than misery.” – Michelle Pfeiffer
“My face carries all my memories. Why would I erase them?” – Diane Von Furstenberg
“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” – Unknown
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” – Pablo Picasso
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Ben Franklin
“I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” – Mary Sarton
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.” – Margaret Deland
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” – David Bowie
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore
“Old age is always 15 years older than I am.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Old age comes at a bad time.” – San Banducci
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” – Truman Capote
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu
“Few people know how to be old.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” – Tom Stoppard
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
“It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” – Elizabeth Lesser
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” – George Orwell
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Kitty O’Neill Collins
