Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
- Franklin Adams
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman
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.
- Douglas MacArthur
Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten.
- Anonymous
Old age takes away what we’ve inherited and gives us what we’ve earned.
- Gerald Brenan
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
- Anonymous
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
- Madeleine L’Engle
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant’s outnumber your friends.
- Ogden Nash
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re abroad, there’s nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
Age is only a number.
- Lexi Starling
Only the young die good.
- Cynic’s Calendar
Age swallows our childhood.
- Jareb Teague
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- Mark Twain
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
- Thomas Dekker
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
- Tryon Edwards
I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
- Robert Bly
May be I’m too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight your on my mind, so you never know.
- Jeff Buckley
It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
- Ron Wild
All would live long; but none would be old.
- Benjamin Franklin
Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn


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