Memorable Quotes About Getting Older

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"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."
David Bowie
"As I grew older, I realized that it was less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones."
Amit Abraham
"Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege."
Unknown
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
Tom Stoppard
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
Benjamin Franklin
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"One of the best things about getting older is realizing that you can actually do more with less."
Unknown
"Age is no guarantee of maturity."
Lawana Blackwell
"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone."
Andy Rooney
"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves."
Laurens van der Post
"We don't get older, we get wiser."
Donatella Versace
"One of the good things about getting older is realizing how many things aren't as important or have no enduring value."
Unknown
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
Tom Wilson
"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Aging gracefully is about embracing the changes in life with grace and dignity."
Unknown
"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
Chili Davis
"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman inside me."
Janet Jackson
"Age does not protect us from love. But love, to some extent, protects us from age."
Anais Nin
"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."
Sophia Loren
"As we grow older, our beauty fades, but our wisdom grows."
Unknown
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"Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff."
Betty White
"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
Betty Friedan
"Grow old with me. The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."
Anthony Burgess
"Age is a measurement of time, wisdom is the measurement of how we've used that time."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you."
Unknown
"Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many."
Unknown
"Old age is like everything else. To make success of it, you've got to start young."
Unknown
"Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here."
Sandra Dallas
"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Satchel Paige
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It's true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
Confucius
"I'm very comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older."
George Clooney
"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother."
Sharon Olds
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"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"One of the good things about getting older is you find out that you're just as interesting as you always thought you were."
Paul Newman
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections."
Louise Nevelson
"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
Herman Melville
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
Oscar Wilde
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
Bob Hope
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
Emily Dickinson
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have found it to be true that the older I've gotten the better my life has become."
Steven Redhead
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
"Getting older is an adventure, not a problem."
Betty Friedan
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"Getting older is a wonderful thing because the older you get, the more you see things."
Karen Black
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
"The first 40 years of your childhood are always the hardest."
Unknown
"Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life."
Proverbs 16:31
"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
Oscar Wilde
"Aging gracefully is all about how you embrace your years."
Unknown
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
H.L. Mencken
"Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you."
Oprah Winfrey
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Anais Nin
"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."
Sophia Loren
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up."
John Wagner
"As you get older, you not necessarily get wiser, but you do learn to appreciate the simple things in life."
Unknown
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many."
Unknown
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift."
Unknown
"Age is simply the number of years the world has been enjoying you."
Unknown
"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional."
Walt Disney
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
Douglas MacArthur
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."
Andrew Carnegie
"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."
Satchel Paige
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
Mark Twain
"Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We don't grow older, we grow riper."
Pablo Picasso
"Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Jeanne Moreau
"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."
Marie Dressler
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
Betty Friedan
"Youth has no age."
Pablo Picasso
"Age is an issue of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?"
David Bowie
"It's not how old you are, it's how you are old."
Jules Renard
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
John Barrymore
"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
Anthony Powell
"It takes a long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso
"Age teaches you to be patient, but age also teaches you to not have time for things that waste your time."
Rob Lowe
"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle
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