1.
I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
Lewis Grizzard
I ultimately discerned the answer, I at last realized how to procure some tranquility and contentment. It would be devastating if the Lord above called me to Him now. However, I can take comfort in knowing that I did get to the bottom of it.
2.
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus
'Young men, heed the words of wisdom from an elder who was once in your shoes.'
3.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
We ought to take note of this peculiar emblem of our era: the only absolute authorized is the unyielding proclamation that there is no ultimate truth.
4.
If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.
Dalai Lama
5.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
James Broughton
6.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
7.
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Celine Dion
8.
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
Walt Whitman
9.
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
Mark Twain
11.
What you get is a living-what you give is a life.
Lillian Gish
12.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
Eartha Kitt
13.
I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
Victor Borge
14.
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
Richard Pryor
15.
Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
Miriam Makeba
16.
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase
21.
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
Martin Luther
22.
I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
Bob Hope
23.
We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan Rivers
24.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Tina Turner
25.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
26.
Aging is for people who don't know any better.
Tony Horton
28.
I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.
Dustin Hoffman
29.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Martin Buber
30.
You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
Milton Berle
31.
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
Diane Keaton
32.
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
Jeff Bezos
33.
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).
Goodman Ace
34.
As we get older, things seem less important.
Brian Cox
35.
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
37.
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
Maya Angelou
38.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
Sara Gruen
39.
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
Simone de Beauvoir
41.
I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
Fernando Botero
42.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
43.
Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?
Robert Plant
44.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus
45.
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
Danielle Steel
46.
It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.
Kathe Kollwitz
47.
If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.
Lenny Bruce
49.
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
Phyllis Diller
50.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson