Aging Quotes


Aging quotes and sayings about aging illustrate the importance of attitude when it comes to aging. While browsing through these quotes, remember that age is a mindset. Everyone on earth is aging. I’m sure you’ll agree it really beats the alternative :) Peruse these quotes to find ways to age with grace by living fully and without regrets. We are truly all getting better and mellower with age. Play more and worry less and you’ll never age a day!



Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Arniel

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Laurence Binyon

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
Pearl S. Buck

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
Andre B. Buruch

To grow old is to move from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis Diller

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Benjamin Franklin

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

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
Bob Hope

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Ed Howe

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young—or slender.
William James

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Jasper Johns

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life…I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.
Anne Lamott

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary

It's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Ernest Meyers

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale

The only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

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

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
Charles M. Schulz

We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy

The heyday of a woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale Turner

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
Oprah Winfrey



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