Quotes on Growing Old

We are always the same age inside.

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

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

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

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

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.

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

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.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

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

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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

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

Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

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 hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!