Here are some quotes about age and getting older that come from the websites Sensational Quotes:
- #1 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Few people know how to be old.
- La Rochefoucauld
#2 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yersterday . . . . If you work, you're surrounded by young people who are plugged into the marketplace, the demographic, the zeitgeist; they want your job and someday they're going to get it.
- Nora Ephron
#3 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
The idea is to die young, as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu
#4 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
- Marie Dressler
#5 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Wish not so much to live long, as to live well.
- Ben Franklin
#6 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
#7 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
I'm old enough to know my limitations and young enough to exceed them.
- Marv Levy (Unretiring at 80 to manage the Buffalo Bills)
#8 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
- Unknown wise person
#9 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might just as well be twenty.
- Pablo Picasso
#10 of Top-Ten Quotes about Age and Aging
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion [at my age] is too much for me.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Some people think the proper age for a man to start thinking of marriage is when he's old enough to realize he shouldn't.
— Anon
Retirement is the beginning of life - not the end.
- from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
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