Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

The older I get, the more I realize that the things that cost nothing hold the most value.

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

Do not regret growing older. It’s a privilege denied to many.

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and develop from the negatives.

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The trick to aging gracefully is to enjoy it.

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

As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.

Growing old is inevitable, but never losing your enthusiasm for learning and adapting is entirely possible.

Every year should be teaching us all something valuable. Whether you get the lesson is really up to you.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.

Age is not how old you are but how many years of fun you’ve had.

Don’t just count your years, make your years count.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Getting older only means the opportunity to create more memories.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

The wisdom of age don’t stop walking because you grow old, but grow old because you stop walking.

As you get older, three things happen The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

There’s no such thing as too late. That’s why they invented death.

The beauty of aging is that it’s your journey and no one else’s, embrace every moment.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Every age has its storytelling form, and art and theater adapt in their own ways to the changes in society.

Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times.

Old age is golden only if you have left nothing undone.

Stay hungry, stay young in spirit, and never stop learning new things.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

At my age, I’ve seen it all, I’ve heard it all, I’ve done it all I just can’t remember it all.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Growing older is fine, but when did we ever grow up?

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

Life’s milestones are not supposed to be counted, they’re supposed to be celebrated.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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.

Looking fifty is great-if you’re sixty.

Middle age is when a man has got to grips with his next birthday by dressing from the waist down.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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

Growing old is not upsetting being perceived as old is.

You’re not as young as you once were, but you’re not as old as you will be. So watch it!

Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Being old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway is the sweet spot of life.

Growing older with grace is all about attitude, gratitude, and resilience.

Being old isn’t a burden. It’s an opportunity to share a lifetime of knowledge and experience.

Getting to be elderly means you can get away with speaking your mind and feigning ignorance at exactly the right moment.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.

Ageing is just another word for living.

Old age A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

Old warriors go out and they don’t surrender. They find some high ground and they fight.

The only way to embrace growing older is to laugh at it when you can and maintain your gratitude each day for the journey.

You don’t grow older, you grow better.

Respect the elderly when you’re young, help the weak when you’re strong, confess the fault when you’re wrong. Because one day in life, you will be old, weak, and wrong.

You’re not aging, you’re evolving.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The only thing getting lit tonight is my Kindle.

You’re only as old as the woman you feel.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.

Growing old on your own terms, joyfully and with a sense of purpose is life’s richest achievement.

Maturity is when you’re willing to feel foolish to learn something new.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.

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

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years we grow old by deserting our ideas.

The art of aging is the art of keeping some cheerfulness to hand.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

I am not old, I’ve just been young for a very long time.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Age doesn’t diminish adventure it only changes the game.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is like a bank account you withdraw from what you’ve put in.

Being seventy is not a sin.

You don’t stop having fun when you get old, you get old when you stop having fun.

You’re not old, you’re a classic.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it really doesn’t matter.

Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

Growing older, you realize that the important things are very few. In fact, basically, just one to live or die with dignity.

Gray hair is a crown of splendor it is attained by a righteous life.

The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Youth has no age.

Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.

I like my wrinkles. They’re the service stripes of life.

Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.

Don’t let anyone tell you you’re getting old. Squash their toes with your rocker.

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Live your life and forget your age.

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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

You’re at an age where your back goes out more than you do.

My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

You don’t get older, you get better.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

Getting old is like a high school reunion you feel young until you see your old classmates.

‘Old’ is an attitude, not an age.

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

It’s not your age, it’s how you age that matters.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Remember, age is just a number. It’s a high score on the game of life.