Aging Quotes

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

I'm not afraid of aging.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.