Quotes on Getting Older

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.