Words for the Wise

Savor our collection of sayings about the charm of old age.

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My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that's the law.
-- Jerry Seinfeld


Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-- Satchel Paige


All would live long, but none would be old.
-- Benjamin Franklin


Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard


Each has his past to shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf


Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-- Lucille Ball


Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


While there's snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire has gone out in the furnace.
-- John G. Diefenbaker


Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: makeup.
-- Bette Davis


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln


You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
-- Timothy Leary


I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
-- William Shakespeare


There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
-- Richard Pryor


There is still no cure for the common birthday.
-- John Glenn


My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
-- Milton Berle


Time goes by. Reputation increases, ability declines.
-- Dag Hammarskjöld


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


Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-- Fred Astaire


I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
-- George Carlin


If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith


I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, "Where's your son?" or "My mother loves you."
-- James Caan


You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
-- Arnold Palmer


It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
-- Josh Billings


Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
-- Christopher Marley

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