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.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you’re only as old as you feel.

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

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

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

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

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success.

Growing old is mandatory growing up is optional.

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals respect for others guides our manners.

Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.

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

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.

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

The wisdom of age don’t stop walking.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets-and it’s always in your face.

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

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

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to set a bad example.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.

We are always the same age inside.

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

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

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

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

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

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

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

The art of aging is the art of keeping some cheerfulness despite the body’s indignities.

Chronological age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Live your life and forget your age.

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.

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

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

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

The irony of aging is getting your head together just in time for your body to fall apart.

Growing old is just a habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.

I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m having a party!

The heart never grows old. It just gets wiser and more capable of deeper appreciation.

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it’ll never matter.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

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.

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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

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

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is ‘anti.’ Aging is human evolution in its pure form.

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

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

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

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

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

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Enjoy the process of getting older it’s the one story where the hero gets wiser in each chapter.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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

If you survive long enough, you’re revered-rather like an old building.

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

Old age is always 15 years older than I am.

You are never too old to become younger!

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

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

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

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

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

Old age the crown of life, our play’s last act.

As I’ve gotten older, I look like a man, I act like a man, but I’m still trying to figure out if I earned that man.

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

To me, 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.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

Old age is like a car it will run if you take good care of it.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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

Old age is no time to start saving for a new BMW.

Being old is a celebration of years of work and effort put into living, proof of a life well lived.

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

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. With the absence of the raging passions.

At my age flowers scare me.

Old age comes at an inconvenient time with superfluous alacrity.

The old believe everything the middle-aged suspect everything the young know everything.

I’m not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.

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

Most people don’t grow up. They age.

It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.

As people grow older, they grow more foolish but more wise!

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

The only people who fear death are those with regrets.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

The old are in a second childhood.

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

First you are young then you are middle-aged then you are old then you are wonderful.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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

To be old and wise, one must first survive being young and reckless.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

So far as I know, there is no such thing as an old dead forest. Trees may fall, but the forest lives. Likewise, in the communion of the saints, the community outlives the lives of its members and is invulnerable to their deaths.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

I’ve reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.