It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.
Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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