50 Getting Older Quotes

  • Women‍‍`s Corner
  • February 17, 2023

They're little snippets of bigger ideas that motivate us to move more, inspire us to give back, and even make us laugh out loud.

But in a world where the word 'aging' is often paired with 'anti', quotes that put a positive spin on the completely normal process of getting older are worth their weight in gold. Here are Some Positive Age Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as 
spectator. - Confucius

1. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

2. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain

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3. I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope

4. Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

5. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

6. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

7. Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Arthur Schopenhauer

8. Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

9. It is not how old you are, but how you are old. - Jules Renard

10. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XXIII

11. Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. - Betty Friedan

12. We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein

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13. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. - Sam Ewing

14. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Anais Nin

15. Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

16. Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we 
see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. - Eleanor Roosevelt

17. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

18. The trick is growing up without growing old. - Casey Stengel

19. Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. 
- Samuel Ullman

20. Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash

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21. You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. - Maurice Chevalier

22. Age is not important unless you're a cheese. - Helen Hayes

23. 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. 
- Dwight L. Moody

24. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

25. Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. - Emily Dickinson

26. Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. - Albert Camus

27. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. - George Sand

28. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

29. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau

30. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. - Agatha Christie

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31. You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. - George Burns

32. Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! - Pierre Corneille

33. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. - Euripides

34. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. - T. S. Eliot

35. The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. - Cesare Pavese

36. In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. - Pope Paul VI

37. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel

38. As men get older, the toys get more expensive. - Marvin Davis

39. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. - Muriel Spark

40. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. - Golda Meir

41. You should never reveal your true age. - Eve Arnold

42. Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. - C. S. Lewis

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43. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

44. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. - Jonathan Swift

45. Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

46. Old age is a shipwreck. - Charles de Gaulle

47. A man growing old becomes a child again. - Sophocles

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

49. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau

50. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde

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