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

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Growing old is mandatory growing up is optional.

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

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

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

The beauty of aging is not the number of years, but the life in those years.

The older I get, the more I see that there are some things that never age.

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

With age, comes new skills You can laugh, cough, sneeze, and pee all at the same time!

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant.

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

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

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.

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

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Getting older, you just don’t want to waste time.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

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

You’re not aging, you’re marinating!

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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

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

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

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

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

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

Growing old can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Old age is no place for sissies.

There’s a silver lining in the cloud of aging, and it’s called experience.

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

The wisdom of age Don’t stop walking because the road is long. Keep walking because it’s there.

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

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

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

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

Growing older is mandatory being mature is optional.

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.

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

Middle age is when a man has got a handle on life and life has put handles on his waist.

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

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

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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

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

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.

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

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

Aging is not something that’s happening to you. It’s a privilege not everybody gets to experience.

To stay young, you have to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Age considers youth ventures.

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favor of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it.

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

Growing older is like climbing a mountain the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

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

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

The trick to aging gracefully is to enjoy it.

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

Youth has no age.

Age is not a disease, it is a richness.

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

Wrinkles merely mark where smiles have been.

The only way to know how long you’ll live is to live as long as you can and see.

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

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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

The only sin is mediocrity.

A good age is like a fine wine it gets better with time if you treat it well.

To resist aging, one must stay awfully busy.

Growing old is no excuse for growing up.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles.

The best way to forget one’s self is to look at the world with attention and love.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Live your life and forget your age.

You’re never too old to become younger.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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

Aging happily is the act of living life in full bloom.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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

There are six myths about old age 1 that it’s a disease, a disaster. 2 That we are mindless. 3 That we are sexless. 4 That we are useless. 5 That we are powerless. 6 That we are all alike.

Loving life and living well over time culminate in the poetry of aging.

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

Aging itself is like a fine wine – complex, fruitful, and really not as terrifying as we might believe.

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

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.

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 unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us.

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

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set bad examples.

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

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

He who is of 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.

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

It’s not a matter of keeping up with the times, it’s about keeping up with the need to always be yourself throughout the times.