The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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-Frédéric Amiel
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
~ W. A. C. Bennett
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
~ Ogden Nash
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
~ John Knox
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
~ Anonymous
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
~ Jonathan Swift
Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
~ Clarence Randall
For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
~ Hasidic Saying
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.
~ George Burns
Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
~ William Shakespeare
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
~ Sandy Wilson
Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.
~ August Strindberg
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
~ Malcolm Cowley
I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.
~ Frances Pollock
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
~ Eartha Kitt
Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
~ Gregory Benford
When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
~ Christie Brinkley
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
~ Deepak Chopra
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
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
~ Marv Levy
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
I get all fired up about aging in America.
~ Willard Scott
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
~ Katharine Graham
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
~ Doug Larson
I'm not afraid of aging.
~ Shelley Duvall
Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
~ Evelyn Lauder
Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
~ Nicole Kidman
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
~ William Holden
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
~ Celine Dion
I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
~ Madhuri Dixit
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
~ Richard Lamm
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
~ Peter Diamandis
Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.
~ Jorge Cruise
My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?
~ Diane Lane
