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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.
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#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
