Quotes on Getting Old

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

We are always the same age inside.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.