Quotes about Aging

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can`t remember the other two.

Norman Wisdom

When you become senile, you won`t know it.

Bill Cosby

We grow old by moments and not by years.

Beverly Baxter

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Jonathan Swift

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.

George Burns

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Old is always 15 years from now.

Bill Cosby

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

You are young, and then you are middle-aged, but it is hard to tell the moment of passage from one state to the next.

Doris Lessing

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