55 Incredible Quotes About Aging

1. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
- Sophia Loren

2. “And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”
- Audrey Hepburn

3. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
- Coco Chanel

4. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
- Mark Twain

6. “The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.”
- Doris Lessing

7. “There’s always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt.”
- Author Unknown

8. “Old age is no place for sissies.”
- Bette Davis

9. “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
- Betty Friedan

10. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent–that is to triumph over old age.”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

11. “We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.”
- Deepak Chopra

12. “The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.”
- Scott Adams

13. “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
- Ben Franklin

14. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth ‘a whole I planned, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid.’”
- Robert Browning

15. “Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.”
- William Holden

16. “I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
- Voltaire

17. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
- Satchel Paige

18. “Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
- George Santayana

19. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw

20. It’s never too late to have a fling. For autumn is just as nice as spring. And it’s never too late to fall in love.”
- Sandy Wilson

21. “For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
- Hasidic saying

22. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
- Chili Davis

23. “It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, ‘I’m six and a half.’ You know, we could be saying, ‘I’m fifty and a half’ and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.”
- Gloria Steinem

24. “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
― George Orwell

25. “As you get older; you’ve probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You’ll be talking with somebody at a party, and you’ll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can’t remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.”
― Dave Barry

26. “Wisdom comes with winters.”
― Oscar Wilde

27. “Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”
- Clint Eastwood

28. “Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
- Kitty O’Neill Collins

29. “You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”
- Anouk Aimee

30. “While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.”
- Amos Bronson Alcott

31. “The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
- Hervey Allen

32. “To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel

33. “One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work ateither extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.”
– Thomas Arnold

34. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
- Fred Astaire

35. “Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.”
- Francis Bacon

36. “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
- Francis Bacon

37. “The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
- Lucille Ball

38. “We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
- May L. Becker

39. “In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
- Josh Billings

40. “To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combione the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
- Bonstettin

41. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
- Les Brown

42. “It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

43. “Age doesn’t matter, unless you’re cheese.”
- Billie Burke

44. “The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
- Deepak Chopra

45. “I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.”
- Jane Goodall

46. “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”
- Elizabeth Lesser

47. “Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
- May Sarton

48. “Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and sunsets with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”
- Vera Nazarian

49. “Old is always fifteen years from now.”
- Bill Cosby

50. “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.”
- Bob Hope

51. “An archaeologist is the best husband woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
- Agatha Christie

52. “We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
- Winston Churchill

53. “Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
- Christopher Morley

54. “The good thing about being old is not being young.”
- Stephen Richards

55. “I Didn’t Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)”
- Doug Jensen