Quotes on Getting Older

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

To a young heart everything is fun.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.