Top 44 Old Quotes

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With age comes wisdom. At least that is how the saying goes. With that in mind, check out the top 44 old quotes.

#44 – 40. Old Quotes

44. Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. – David Mamet

43. As I started getting older, I realized, ‘I’m so happy!’ I didn’t expect this! I wasn’t happy when I was young. – Jane Fonda

42. In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long. – Pope Paul VI

41. 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. – Herman Melville

40. Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. – Billy Graham

#39 – 30. Old Quotes

39. Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret. – Benjamin Disraeli

38. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. – Chili Davis

37. That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. – Frances McDormand

36. The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. – Leon Edel

35. Why would I worry about getting older—what’s to moan about? – Dawn French

34. I wish I was 100-per cent confident in my own skin. It’s always a process, but getting older, I’ve become more confident. – Brittany Snow

33. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser, You feel more mature, You feel like you know yourself better, You would trade that for softer skin? Not me! – Anna Kournikova

32. I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror. – Cherie Lunghi

31. To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative. – Michael Caine

30. There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren

#29 – 20. Old Quotes

29. You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. – Fay Weldon

28. The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you. – Mike Love

27. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. – Golda Meir

26. I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. – Ruth Rendell Young

25. There is a beautiful thing inside you that is thousands of years old. Too old to be captured in poems. Too old to be loved by everyone. But loved so very deeply by a chosen few. – Nikita Gill

24. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

23. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine L’Engle

22. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Groucho Marx

21. When you’re 50, you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. – Eugene O’Neill

20. 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

#19 – 10. Old Quotes

19. Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all. – Lena Headey

18. Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus. – John Byrne

17. It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. – Francis Ford Coppola

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

15. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon

14. You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

13. For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12. Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!… his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens

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

10. It’s an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. – Mark Twain

#9 – 1. Old Quotes

9. Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. – Booth Tarkington

8. Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. – Ausonius

7. Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. – Maggie Kuhn

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

5. I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot … Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age? – Jerry Hall

4. ‘The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside, everybody can see it. – Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

3. The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. – Frank Lloyd Wright

2. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

1. If you’re not getting older, you’re dead. – Tom Petty

Ideas for the top 44 old quotes come from the following sources.^[1]kidadl – 55 Old Age Quotes About The Beauty Of Growing Old^[2]Reader’s Digest – 20 Uplifting Quotes to Make You Feel Better About Getting Older