Old age is not a defeat, but a victory, not a punishment but a privilege.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Life’s twilight years are not a time to retreat but to realize one’s potential.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.

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

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

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

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

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

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Old age A great sense of calm and freedom. One’s life feels like one’s own.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow.

I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

You end up as you deserve. In old age, you must put up with the face, the friends, and the health that you have earned.

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

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

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

The older I get, the more I see how much representations of simplicity matter.

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

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Old age is an excellent time for reflection and contemplation.

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

Respect old age it carries wisdom, patience, and grace.

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

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.

The wisdom of age let them be skeptical of easy truths, hard-fought battles, and the promises of a golden age.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.

Wrinkles are the engraved trophies of the life that you’ve lived and loved, deeply.

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

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Don’t resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it has given me ‘me’. It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and laughter.

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.

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

You are never too old to be what you might have been.

An old man is twice a child.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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

Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

With the aging comes an acute awareness of the preciousness of time.

I am not an old man. I am a young man with many years of experience.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

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

Age considers youth ventures.

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

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

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

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.

It takes a long time to become young.

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

Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.

The trouble with being old is you’re often tired by the time you get used to being retired.

The wisdom of age is the art of being comfortable in your own skin.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

At my age, flowers scare me.

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you’ve put in.

Old people love to give good advice it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.

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.

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

It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Growing old is mandatory growing up is optional.

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

To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

You can’t help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as the body.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

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

The only sin for which we never forgive ourselves is age.

Old age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

At every age, it pays to preserve your curiosity, enthusiasm, and capacity for wonder.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.

You’re not old, you’re vintage.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The idea is not to live forever but to create something that will.

Old age is like a second childhood.

Old soldiers never die they just fade away.

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

You know you’re getting old when the little old gray-haired lady you helped across the street is your wife.

The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Aging is an art that requires the grace of patience and the beauty of wisdom.