Getting Older Quotes

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

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

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

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!