Quotes on Growing Older

Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

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

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

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

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.

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