Getting older means more years to add to your life, less active, less hair, more medicine, more wrinkles, arthritis, and more forgetful. Inspirational getting older quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Most Famous Getting Older Quotes
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life Kitty O’Neill Collins
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. Robert Quillen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Woody Allen
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to. Albert Einstein
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. George Burns
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume control also turns to the left. Jerry M. Wright
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. Sophia Loren
Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does. J. Norman Collie
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. George Bernard Shaw
There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn
By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. George Burns
Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday I will forget yours if you forget mine! Kate Summers
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it Doris Day
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Larry Lorenzoni
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was? Satchel Paige
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favor of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it. Patrick Moore
People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. George Burns
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
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap. Bob Hope
I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere. George Burns
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus, he does not believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. Bob Phillips
If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson
Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n roll? I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger. Cher
If you want to know how old a woman is then ask her sister in law. Edgar Howe
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap. Bob Hope
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright. Lucille Ball
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Larry Lorenzoni
I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven’t changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now. George Carlin
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all. Ann Landers
All men are the same age. Dorothy Parker
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Ogden Nash
People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. George Burns
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. Maggie Kuhn
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Woody Allen
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns
I have successfully completed the thirty year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed.
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: ‘Everybody has to do it,’ but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Martha Beck
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles Schulz
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again. Eleanor Roosevelt
She said she was approaching forty and I couldn’t help but wonder from which direction. Bob Hope
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Phyllis Diller
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody expects to trust his body much after the age of fifty. Alexander Hamilton
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost
At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves. George Orwell
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore
I refuse to admit I’m more than fifty two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. Nancy Astor
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain
Looking fifty is great if you’re sixty. Joan Rivers
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth
Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up. John Wagner
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. Sophia Loren
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror. Cherie Lunghi
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. Albert Einstein
Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight. Phyllis Diller
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. George Bernard Shaw
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. Robert Brault
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. David Bowie
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t. Carrie Fisher
