Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain

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

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
- Satchel Paige

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
- Chinese Proverb

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
- William J. Clinton

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois

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

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen

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.
- Henri Amiel

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
- Robert Southey

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Tom Wilson

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
- Jerry M. Wright

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank A. Clark

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
- Richard Steele

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